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What members of Congress are talking about now, and how it’s changing. Word stems pulled from release titles across the U.S. Senate and U.S. House; trajectories use full text (title + body) with stemming.

Stems collapse simple plurals (e.g. family/families). Numbers are release-count, not raw word frequency, so a single release that uses a word ten times still counts once.

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Chamber:All CongressSenateHouse
Window:Last 7 daysLast 30 days2026 YTDSince Jan 2025

Top stems in release titles over the last 30 days, with the change versus the 30 days before.

  1. 1trump356▼69
  2. 2housing187▲84
  3. 3congressman179▼50
  4. 4million178▼18
  5. 5federal168▼17
  6. 6senate165▼30
  7. 7america155▲19
  8. 8colleague148▼29
  9. 9american146▼61
  10. 10court139▲107
  11. 11protect126▼57
  12. 12funding124▼109
  13. 13supreme122▲113
  14. 14demand120▼17
  15. 15house107▼192
  16. 16administration104▼16
  17. 17president95▲32
  18. 18decision95▲64
  19. 19resolution89▼64
  20. 20committee86▼81
  21. 21national84▼108
  22. 22familie83▼24
  23. 23anniversary82▲60
  24. 24icymi82▲2
  25. 25health82▼48
  26. 26congresswoman79▼28
  27. 27congressional79▼37
  28. 28service78▼56
  29. 29celebrate76▲5
  30. 30applaud74▼25

Frequency over time

Weekly mentions of selected terms across all 100 senators’ releases. Add or remove terms to compare.

trumphousingcongressmanmillionfederal

Weekly mentions in release titles + bodies, since Jan 2025. Stemming included, e.g. Iran matches Iranian.

Who’s pushing each topic

Top senators by full-text mentions of the current top-5 trending terms, since Jan 2025.

trump
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)855
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)660
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)624
housing
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)574
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)359
  3. 3Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)Rochester (D-DE)345
congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)362
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)350
  3. 3MLLawler (R-NY)344
million
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)442
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)418
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)333
federal
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)680
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)501
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)489

D vs R vocabulary

Words that tilt strongly toward one party in release titles, since Jan 2025. Ranked by log-odds with a Laplace prior; higher score means more party-coded.

Democrat-coded
  1. pressleyD 425 · R 0
  2. ansariD 267 · R 0
  3. residenteD 242 · R 0
  4. comisionadoD 242 · R 0
  5. jayapalD 361 · R 1
  6. walkinshawD 162 · R 0
  7. balintD 150 · R 0
  8. simonD 149 · R 0
  9. lizzieD 149 · R 0
  10. nikemaD 135 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 262
  2. arringtonD 1 · R 241
  3. patroniD 0 · R 95
  4. columnD 1 · R 184
  5. tubervilleD 4 · R 461
  6. chairwomanD 0 · R 88
  7. katieD 5 · R 509
  8. fedorchakD 2 · R 237
  9. iowanD 0 · R 77
  10. newsmaxD 0 · R 73

Topic timeline

Pick a term and see when senators wrote about it most. Spike weeks (top 5 highest-volume) are highlighted; the headline that led each spike is below.

Term:

Top headlines from spike weeks

  1. Week of Feb 23, 2026 · Greg Stanton (D-AZ)
    Stanton Slams Trump’s Tariffs on The Lead with Jake Tapper
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Robert C. Scott (D-VA)
    Education Leaders Demand Answers on Trump’s Attempts to Dismantle Museum and Library Services
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Donald S. Beyer (D-VA)
    Reps. Obernolte, Beyer introduce bipartisan CREATE AI Act to expand access to artificial intelligence research tools
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Robin L. Kelly (D-IL)
    Doctor, Founder of Community Health Center to Join Rep. Kelly for Trump’s Address to Joint Session of Congress
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Jack Reed (D-RI)
    Reed Statement on Trump’s Inauguration