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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. 1trump61▼24
  2. 2colleague38▲4
  3. 3national37▲19
  4. 4senate31▼23
  5. 5protect26▼4
  6. 6million25▲6
  7. 7american24▼4
  8. 8merkley21▲6
  9. 9familie21▲16
  10. 10project21▲12
  11. 11administration19▼6
  12. 12committee18▲13
  13. 13schiff18▲5
  14. 14wyden18▲7
  15. 15funding17▼5
  16. 16federal17▼4
  17. 17military16▲11
  18. 18defense16▲10
  19. 19taxpayer15▲12
  20. 20padilla15–
  21. 21scott15▲8
  22. 22world15▲10
  23. 23secure14▼4
  24. 24right14▲7
  25. 25addres13▲9
  26. 26service13▲3
  27. 27durbin13▼13
  28. 28cornyn13▲9
  29. 29protection13▲8
  30. 30cortez13▲6

Frequency over time

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

trumpcolleaguenationalsenateprotect

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
national
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)596
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)438
  3. 3Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)Duckworth (D-IL)426
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
protect
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)502
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)396
  3. 3Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)395

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