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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 since January 1, 2025. No prior window — counts only.

  1. 1trump6,735
  2. 2colleague3,454
  3. 3senate3,219
  4. 4administration2,141
  5. 5american1,997
  6. 6funding1,817
  7. 7federal1,718
  8. 8health1,599
  9. 9durbin1,568
  10. 10republican1,553
  11. 11protect1,527
  12. 12million1,470
  13. 13demand1,468
  14. 14national1,442
  15. 15president1,421
  16. 16secretary1,156
  17. 17hearing1,144
  18. 18resolution1,129
  19. 19merkley1,080
  20. 20wyden1,062
  21. 21icymi1,046
  22. 22security1,044
  23. 23committee1,016
  24. 24democrat1,008
  25. 25warren1,000
  26. 26blumenthal996
  27. 27kaine966
  28. 28grassley963
  29. 29schiff957
  30. 30reintroduce950

Frequency over time

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

trumpcolleaguesenateadministrationamerican

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)841
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)644
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)601
colleague
  1. 1Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)321
  2. 2Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)319
  3. 3Tim Kaine (D-VA)Kaine (D-VA)290
senate
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)1229
  2. 2Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)788
  3. 3Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)750
administration
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)711
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)533
  3. 3Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)485
american
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)733
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)535
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)500

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 155 · R 0
  2. arizonaD 128 · R 0
  3. marylandD 125 · R 0
  4. michiganD 102 · R 0
  5. firingD 297 · R 2
  6. illinoiD 195 · R 1
  7. murrayD 821 · R 8
  8. layoffD 89 · R 0
  9. humanitarianD 89 · R 0
  10. rankingD 179 · R 1
Republican-coded
  1. kansaD 0 · R 123
  2. tubervilleD 3 · R 448
  3. katieD 4 · R 496
  4. ashleyD 0 · R 94
  5. missedD 0 · R 89
  6. alabamaD 0 · R 84
  7. columnD 1 · R 149
  8. highD 0 · R 66
  9. maineD 1 · R 124
  10. missouriD 0 · R 61

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 · Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA)
    Rep. Vindman Announces State of the Union Guest, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY)
    Congressman Kennedy and Colleagues Demand Answers on Burdensome Requirements for Canadian Travelers
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Donald S. Beyer (D-VA)
    Reps. Obernolte, Beyer introduce bipartisan CREATE AI Act to expand access to artificial intelligence research tools
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD)
    Congressman Hoyer Announces AFGE National President Everett Kelley as His Guest to Trump's Joint Address to Congress
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
    Pelosi Statement on President Trump’s Second Inaugural Address