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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. 1trump268▼54
  2. 2colleague165▲1
  3. 3senate143▼77
  4. 4committee102▲40
  5. 5demand95▲26
  6. 6federal92▼2
  7. 7american85▼33
  8. 8million80▼23
  9. 9funding73▼6
  10. 10protect67▼37
  11. 11administration65▼21
  12. 12graham63▲50
  13. 13hearing61▲21
  14. 14schiff61▼17
  15. 15icymi59▲10
  16. 16health59▲14
  17. 17durbin54▼28
  18. 18wyden51▼2
  19. 19america51▼27
  20. 20warren50▲5
  21. 21gillibrand50▲8
  22. 22merkley49▼35
  23. 23national48▼39
  24. 24celebrate48▲12
  25. 25heinrich48▲7
  26. 26padilla48▼28
  27. 27blumenthal47▼5
  28. 28water47▲25
  29. 29lindsey44▲new
  30. 30applaud44▼2

Frequency over time

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

trumpcolleaguesenatecommitteedemand

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)890
  2. 2Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)708
  3. 3Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)683
colleague
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)341
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)337
  3. 3Tim Kaine (D-VA)Kaine (D-VA)312
senate
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)1302
  2. 2Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)1029
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)922
committee
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)843
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)755
  3. 3Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)676
demand
  1. 1Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)Blumenthal (D-CT)284
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)273
  3. 3Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)246

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. nevadaD 166 · R 0
  2. arizonaD 140 · R 0
  3. marylandD 128 · R 0
  4. michiganD 111 · R 0
  5. illinoiD 205 · R 1
  6. firingD 301 · R 2
  7. murrayD 892 · R 8
  8. georgiaD 189 · R 1
  9. layoffD 90 · R 0
  10. graniteD 76 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. kansaD 0 · R 140
  2. tubervilleD 3 · R 472
  3. katieD 4 · R 525
  4. ashleyD 0 · R 95
  5. missedD 0 · R 93
  6. alabamaD 0 · R 90
  7. columnD 1 · R 161
  8. highD 0 · R 71
  9. missouriD 0 · R 70
  10. newsmaxD 0 · R 62

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 · Riley M. Moore (R-WV)
    Congressman Riley M. Moore Presents Official Report to the White House with Solutions to End Christian Persecution in Nigeria
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Deb Fischer (R-NE)
    Fischer Joins “Mornings with Maria” to Discuss Fulfilling Promises to Americans
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
    Schumer Localizes Budget Danger: Under GOP PLAN to Cripple Medicaid, Countless SI Seniors Could BE Discharged FROM Nursing Homes, Rehab Facilities & Assisted Living; Senator Demands GOP Block Trump...
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Emily Randall (D-WA)
    Congresswoman Randall Announces Ashley Jones as Special Guest for Congressional Joint Address
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
    Congressman Biggs Issues Statement on President Donald Trump’s Historic Inauguration