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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. 1house230▼34
  2. 2congressman213▼70
  3. 3trump174▲22
  4. 4funding144▲11
  5. 5committee109▲39
  6. 6congresswoman106▼22
  7. 7federal103▼9
  8. 8million101▼5
  9. 9secure101▲45
  10. 10resolution97▼26
  11. 11american89▼11
  12. 12passage86▼6
  13. 13protect82▼18
  14. 14housing80▲45
  15. 15member79▼10
  16. 16america78▲27
  17. 17congressional77▼46
  18. 18demand76▲1
  19. 19veteran75–
  20. 20representative75▲18
  21. 21passe73▼24
  22. 22service72▲3
  23. 23national72▼69
  24. 24republican69▲9
  25. 25advance66▲7
  26. 26health65▲2
  27. 27familie65▲5
  28. 28applaud56▼2
  29. 29security56▼13
  30. 30answer53▲13

Frequency over time

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

housecongressmantrumpfundingcommittee

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.

house
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)558
  2. 2Mike Johnson (R-LA)Johnson (R-LA)307
  3. 3APPressley (D-MA)277
congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)356
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)333
  3. 3MLLawler (R-NY)327
trump
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)459
  2. 2JLLarson (D-CT)333
  3. 3APPressley (D-MA)251
funding
  1. 1Summer L. Lee (D-PA)Lee (D-PA)191
  2. 2CPPappas (D-NH)181
  3. 3Mike Johnson (R-LA)Johnson (R-LA)167
committee
  1. 1MLLawler (R-NY)281
  2. 2JLLarson (D-CT)233
  3. 3RNNeal (D-MA)193

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 360 · R 0
  2. residenteD 227 · R 0
  3. comisionadoD 227 · R 0
  4. ansariD 224 · R 0
  5. nortonD 216 · R 0
  6. jayapalD 324 · R 1
  7. lizzieD 146 · R 0
  8. simonD 139 · R 0
  9. walkinshawD 138 · R 0
  10. nikemaD 131 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 248
  2. arringtonD 1 · R 235
  3. griffithD 2 · R 348
  4. patroniD 0 · R 91
  5. chairwomanD 0 · R 81
  6. fedorchakD 2 · R 232
  7. wyomingD 0 · R 73
  8. keithD 0 · R 62
  9. clydeD 0 · R 57
  10. telegramD 0 · R 57

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 Nov 17, 2025 · Jared F. Golden (D-ME)
    Golden’s bill to restore federal workers’ union rights clears threshold to force House action
  2. Week of May 19, 2025 · Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
    Van Hollen, Mfume, Members of Maryland Congressional Delegation Introduce Bill to Award Henrietta Lacks the Congressional Gold Medal
  3. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)
    Reps. Cleaver & Flood Kick Off Public Input Process for HOME and CDBG Reauthorization
  4. Week of Mar 10, 2025 · Darrell Issa (R-CA)
    Issa Letter to President Trump Raises 'Serious Concerns' of Armenia Invasion by Azerbaijan
  5. Week of Feb 24, 2025 · Joni Ernst (R-IA)
    Ernst Pushes to Permanently Repeal the Federal Death Tax