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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 daysYear to dateSince Jan 2025

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

  1. 1trump327▼85
  2. 2million201▲40
  3. 3congressman193▼11
  4. 4federal177▼14
  5. 5demand137▼18
  6. 6funding126▼41
  7. 7colleague117▼136
  8. 8protect116▼37
  9. 9administration109▼27
  10. 10icymi104▼6
  11. 11house104▼87
  12. 12health92▼23
  13. 13american89▼66
  14. 14anniversary84▲65
  15. 15service82▼11
  16. 16center79▼3
  17. 17county78▲35
  18. 18delegation75▲15
  19. 19national74▼62
  20. 20member73▼4
  21. 21september72▲new
  22. 22visit72▲15
  23. 23congresswoman70▼23
  24. 24answer69▼5
  25. 25highlight67▲10
  26. 26state67▼2
  27. 27president64▲10
  28. 28celebrate64▼6
  29. 29leader63▲4
  30. 30resolution63▼58

Frequency over time

Weekly mentions of selected terms across every record in the archive. This chart queries the whole corpus, including the state and executive collections, and ignores the chamber filter above. Add or remove terms to compare.

trumpmillioncongressmanfederaldemand

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)915
  2. 2Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)731
  3. 3Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)714
million
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)487
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)454
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)408
congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)391
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)386
  3. 3RKKrishnamoorthi (D-IL)372
federal
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)734
  2. 2Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)574
  3. 3Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)571
demand
  1. 1Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)Blumenthal (D-CT)313
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)308
  3. 3Martin Heinrich (D-NM)Heinrich (D-NM)258

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 474 · R 0
  2. comisionadoD 287 · R 0
  3. residenteD 285 · R 0
  4. ansariD 283 · R 0
  5. walkinshawD 198 · R 0
  6. balintD 157 · R 0
  7. lizzieD 155 · R 0
  8. nikemaD 146 · R 0
  9. rivaD 136 · R 0
  10. haleyD 134 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 296
  2. arringtonD 1 · R 249
  3. loudermilkD 0 · R 112
  4. columnD 1 · R 206
  5. tubervilleD 4 · R 490
  6. chairwomanD 0 · R 97
  7. katieD 5 · R 556
  8. fedorchakD 2 · R 255
  9. iowanD 0 · R 81
  10. newsmaxD 0 · R 80

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 · Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
    Markey to Boycott Trump’s State of the Union, Will be Joined by La Colaborativa’s Gladys Vega as Guest to “People’s State of the Union”
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
    Booker Statement on Fatal Shooting of New Jersey Teen in the West Bank
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Ron Wyden (D-OR)
    Merkley, Wyden Join Legislation to Combat Urban Heat Islands
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Troy A. Carter (D-LA)
    Fired Louisiana Federal Employee to join Congressman Carter for Trump’s First Address to a Joint Session of Congress
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
    Griffith Statement on Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance