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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 from January 1 through now, compared with January 1 through the same timestamp one calendar year earlier.

  1. 1trump2,717▼1862
  2. 2senate1,556▼429
  3. 3colleague1,358▼973
  4. 4million952▲170
  5. 5funding950▼71
  6. 6american928▼331
  7. 7federal911▼125
  8. 8administration806▼663
  9. 9demand726▼229
  10. 10protect699▼285
  11. 11durbin693▼333
  12. 12national603▼296
  13. 13health580▼425
  14. 14schiff555▼21
  15. 15merkley549▼122
  16. 16committee546▼122
  17. 17resolution508▼204
  18. 18padilla499▼109
  19. 19warren496▼129
  20. 20america490▲40
  21. 21wyden490▼189
  22. 22icymi489▼214
  23. 23democrat487▼131
  24. 24president485▼521
  25. 25hearing474▼295
  26. 26state463▼24
  27. 27gillibrand456▲195
  28. 28blumenthal453▼193
  29. 29secure451▲55
  30. 30kaine431▼189

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.

trumpsenatecolleaguemillionfunding

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)950
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)755
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)752
senate
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)1414
  2. 2Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)1129
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)975
colleague
  1. 1Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)369
  2. 2Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)367
  3. 3Tim Kaine (D-VA)Kaine (D-VA)342
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
funding
  1. 1Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)578
  2. 2Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)489
  3. 3Martin Heinrich (D-NM)Heinrich (D-NM)406

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 Feb 23, 2026 · Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
    Shaheen, Colleagues Unveil New Legislation Requiring Refunds of Trump’s Illegal Tariffs Following Landmark SCOTUS Ruling
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Jack Reed (D-RI)
    Reed Leads Calls for Hearings on Trump’s Tariff Chaos & Misuse of Executive Power
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Andy Kim (D-NJ)
    Senator Andy Kim Hears From New Jersey Parents About Devastating Realities of Medicaid and Department of Education Cuts for Disability Community as Budget Fight Continues
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Jesús G. García (D-IL)
    El Congresista García Destacará los Ataques a los Derechos de los Veteranos y los Trabajadores en el Discurso Presidencial Conjunto
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)
    Schakowsky to Skip Inauguration, Instead Will Attend MLK Day Celebrations