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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 over the last 7 days, with the change versus the 7 days before.

  1. 1wyden5▲3
  2. 2merkley5▲2
  3. 3million4▼9
  4. 4fetterman3▲2
  5. 5bonamici2▲1
  6. 6oregon2▲1
  7. 7salina2▲new
  8. 8street2▲1
  9. 9demand2▼3
  10. 10celebrate2▼1
  11. 11federal2▼3

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.

wydenmerkleymillionfettermanbonamici

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.

wyden
  1. 1Ron Wyden (D-OR)Wyden (D-OR)667
  2. 2Jeff Merkley (D-OR)Merkley (D-OR)492
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)199
merkley
  1. 1Jeff Merkley (D-OR)Merkley (D-OR)891
  2. 2Ron Wyden (D-OR)Wyden (D-OR)361
  3. 3Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)Hollen (D-MD)162
million
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)503
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)477
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)420
fetterman
  1. 1John Fetterman (D-PA)Fetterman (D-PA)162
  2. 2Jeff Merkley (D-OR)Merkley (D-OR)56
  3. 3Martin Heinrich (D-NM)Heinrich (D-NM)52
bonamici
  1. 1Jeff Merkley (D-OR)Merkley (D-OR)108
  2. 2Ron Wyden (D-OR)Wyden (D-OR)68
  3. 3Edward J. Markey (D-MA)Markey (D-MA)19

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 185 · R 0
  2. arizonaD 160 · R 0
  3. marylandD 145 · R 0
  4. illinoiD 234 · R 1
  5. georgiaD 208 · R 1
  6. firingD 304 · R 2
  7. murrayD 990 · R 9
  8. layoffD 90 · R 0
  9. graniteD 86 · R 0
  10. massachusettD 79 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. kansaD 0 · R 158
  2. highD 0 · R 151
  3. katieD 4 · R 574
  4. alabamaD 0 · R 100
  5. tubervilleD 4 · R 499
  6. ashleyD 0 · R 97
  7. missedD 0 · R 96
  8. columnD 1 · R 183
  9. missouriD 0 · R 76
  10. indianaD 0 · R 75

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 · Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
    Markey, Castro, Colleagues Urge U.S. to Apply Highest Nonproliferation Standards to Any Nuclear Cooperation Agreement with Saudi Arabia Amid Growing Human Rights, National Security Concerns
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Tim Kaine (D-VA)
    Warner & Kaine Join Colleagues in Letter Emphasizing Immense Harm Shuttering Department of Education will have on Students with Disabilities
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
    Hirono, Colleagues Urge Attorney General Against Appointment of Kash Patel as Acting ATF Director
  4. Week of Mar 17, 2025 · Jack Reed (D-RI)
    Reed: Trump’s Cancellation of USDA Local Food Purchasing Programs Hurts Hungry Students & Families, Local Farmers, & the Economy
  5. Week of Feb 3, 2025 · Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX)
    Arrington’s Groundbreaking Cancer Detection Bill Gains Support from Republicans, Democrats, and Dallas Cowboys