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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 7 days, with the change versus the 7 days before.

  1. 1congressman36▼57
  2. 2trump19▼46
  3. 3federal17▼15
  4. 4veteran16▲10
  5. 5congresswoman15▼25
  6. 6demand15▼7
  7. 7transparency12▲3
  8. 8house12▼125
  9. 9center12▼5
  10. 10visit11▲10
  11. 11million11▼12
  12. 12protect11▼23
  13. 13reintroduce10▲7
  14. 14member10▼17
  15. 15colleague10▲4
  16. 16administration9▼1
  17. 17leader9▼3
  18. 18america9▼19
  19. 19service9▼6
  20. 20funding9▼32
  21. 21committee9▼43
  22. 22representative8▼4
  23. 23protection8▼1
  24. 24health8▼8
  25. 25answer8▼3
  26. 26american7▼26
  27. 27releasessmith7▲new
  28. 28facility7▲6
  29. 29disaster7▲3
  30. 30letter7▼10

Frequency over time

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

congressmantrumpfederalveterancongresswoman

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.

congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)374
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)361
  3. 3MLLawler (R-NY)357
trump
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)482
  2. 2JLLarson (D-CT)358
  3. 3APPressley (D-MA)268
federal
  1. 1APPressley (D-MA)227
  2. 2Summer L. Lee (D-PA)Lee (D-PA)208
  3. 3ZNNunn (R-IA)199
veteran
  1. 1DTTran (D-CA)172
  2. 2HJJeffries (D-NY)159
  3. 3RMMenendez (D-NJ)124
congresswoman
  1. 1APPressley (D-MA)344
  2. 2MGGoodlander (D-NH)291
  3. 3ARRadewagen (R-AS)286

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 387 · R 0
  2. comisionadoD 251 · R 0
  3. residenteD 251 · R 0
  4. nortonD 239 · R 0
  5. ansariD 236 · R 0
  6. jayapalD 349 · R 1
  7. walkinshawD 162 · R 0
  8. simonD 155 · R 0
  9. lizzieD 153 · R 0
  10. nikemaD 140 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 275
  2. griffithD 2 · R 376
  3. arringtonD 1 · R 244
  4. loudermilkD 0 · R 110
  5. patroniD 0 · R 99
  6. chairwomanD 0 · R 89
  7. fedorchakD 2 · R 235
  8. wyomingD 0 · R 73
  9. keithD 0 · R 67
  10. clydeD 0 · R 65

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 · John B. Larson (D-CT)
    Larson Calls for Renewed Negotiations to End Trump Health Care Crisis
  2. Week of Jul 14, 2025 · Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
    Malliotakis, Suozzi Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Housing Opportunities
  3. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY)
    Congressman Kennedy and Colleagues Demand Answers on Burdensome Requirements for Canadian Travelers
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Jefferson Shreve (R-IN)
    Congressman Shreve Invites Wayne County Sheriff To Presidential Address
  5. Week of Feb 24, 2025 · Daniel Webster (R-FL)
    Webster Introduces Bill to Ban Chinese Citrus and Put American Farmers First