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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 from January 1 through now, compared with January 1 through the same timestamp one calendar year earlier.

  1. 1congressman2,574▼1034
  2. 2trump2,147▼1605
  3. 3house1,774▼479
  4. 4funding1,451▲359
  5. 5million1,372▲728
  6. 6federal1,185▼130
  7. 7congresswoman1,157▼649
  8. 8secure850▲522
  9. 9american842▼249
  10. 10protect829▼203
  11. 11demand807▼40
  12. 12congressional784▼206
  13. 13member753▼37
  14. 14resolution748▼117
  15. 15state738▲170
  16. 16national735▼122
  17. 17health694▼236
  18. 18committee630▼208
  19. 19passe630▲88
  20. 20project629▲336
  21. 21president599▼721
  22. 22security589▼99
  23. 23america589▲121
  24. 24administration588▼533
  25. 25service582▼146
  26. 26leader531▼129
  27. 27representative528▲41
  28. 28passage523▼79
  29. 29icymi513▼17
  30. 30county497▲116

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.

congressmantrumphousefundingmillion

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. 1HGGriffith (R-VA)426
  2. 2CPPappas (D-NH)412
  3. 3RKKrishnamoorthi (D-IL)394
trump
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)516
  2. 2JLLarson (D-CT)378
  3. 3APPressley (D-MA)300
house
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)632
  2. 2Mike Johnson (R-LA)Johnson (R-LA)342
  3. 3APPressley (D-MA)340
funding
  1. 1HGGriffith (R-VA)251
  2. 2Summer L. Lee (D-PA)Lee (D-PA)225
  3. 3CPPappas (D-NH)208
million
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)292
  2. 2Summer L. Lee (D-PA)Lee (D-PA)226
  3. 3JLLarson (D-CT)225

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.

Term:

Top headlines from spike weeks

  1. Week of Nov 17, 2025 · Tom Barrett (R-MI)
    Barrett Applauds VA Secretary, Calls for Additional Action To Restore Benefits To Veterans Forced Out Over COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements
  2. Week of Jul 14, 2025 · John B. Larson (D-CT)
    Larson and Ways and Means Democrats Lead Call to Restore Customer Service Data Purged from Social Security Website
  3. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · William R. Timmons (R-SC)
    Timmons Announces New Chief of Staff
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Seth Magaziner (D-RI)
    Magaziner Announces Wood River Health Center Director as Guest for State of the Union
  5. Week of Feb 24, 2025 · John B. Larson (D-CT)
    Larson Condemns Musk-Trump Attacks on Social Security