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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. 1colleague70▲27
  2. 2trump61▼15
  3. 3senate32▼27
  4. 4protect27▲9
  5. 5committee26▼23
  6. 6merkley25▲13
  7. 7administration23▲8
  8. 8american22▼5
  9. 9rural21▲16
  10. 10demand21▼9
  11. 11wyden20▲5
  12. 12federal20▲5
  13. 13funding19▲2
  14. 14national18▲7
  15. 15icymi17▼2
  16. 16program17▲13
  17. 17service16▲8
  18. 18health16▼3
  19. 19restore15▲11
  20. 20taxpayer15▲11
  21. 21schiff15▼6
  22. 22warren15▲5
  23. 23project14▲6
  24. 24energy14▲6
  25. 25padilla14▼1
  26. 26kaine14▲5
  27. 27blumenthal14▼1
  28. 28right14▲5
  29. 29bennet13▲3
  30. 30expand13▲2

Frequency over time

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

colleaguetrumpsenateprotectcommittee

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.

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
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
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
protect
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)531
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)444
  3. 3Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)424
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

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.

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Top headlines from spike weeks

  1. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
    New Hampshire Congressional Delegation Calls on Secretary Kennedy to Restore $80 Million in Federal Funding to Address Substance Use and Mental Health Crises
  2. Week of Mar 10, 2025 · John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
    Hickenlooper, Colleagues Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Help Homeowners Conserve Water, Save Money
  3. Week of Feb 24, 2025 · Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
    Murphy, 17 Colleagues Lead Bipartisan Resolution Supporting Ukraine on Third Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion
  4. Week of Feb 10, 2025 · Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
    Norton Releases Remarks from American Federation of Government Employees Legislative Conference
  5. Week of Feb 3, 2025 · Emily Randall (D-WA)
    Congresswoman Randall Calls on Trump to Rescind Sham “Offer” to Federal Employees