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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.

Trending now

Top stems in release titles since January 1, 2025. No prior window — counts only.

  1. 1congressman6,732
  2. 2trump6,299
  3. 3house4,487
  4. 4congresswoman3,251
  5. 5funding2,746
  6. 6federal2,692
  7. 7million2,166
  8. 8american2,103
  9. 9protect2,058
  10. 10president2,033
  11. 11republican1,973
  12. 12health1,931
  13. 13congressional1,927
  14. 14administration1,856
  15. 15demand1,788
  16. 16national1,751
  17. 17resolution1,734
  18. 18member1,705
  19. 19committee1,588
  20. 20reintroduce1,525
  21. 21service1,402
  22. 22state1,391
  23. 23government1,353
  24. 24security1,345
  25. 25passe1,337
  26. 26secure1,327
  27. 27congres1,325
  28. 28leader1,307
  29. 29passage1,276
  30. 30veteran1,276

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.

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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.

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 442 · R 0
  2. comisionadoD 307 · R 0
  3. residenteD 305 · R 0
  4. ansariD 264 · R 0
  5. nortonD 248 · R 0
  6. lizzieD 161 · R 0
  7. nikemaD 154 · R 0
  8. rivaD 147 · R 0
  9. balintD 141 · R 0
  10. haleyD 140 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 318
  2. arringtonD 1 · R 251
  3. loudermilkD 0 · R 111
  4. griffithD 3 · R 442
  5. chairwomanD 0 · R 102
  6. fedorchakD 2 · R 260
  7. clydeD 0 · R 74
  8. wyomingD 0 · R 74
  9. keithD 0 · R 70
  10. balartD 3 · R 257

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.

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