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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, 2026, with the change versus the same calendar window in 2025.

  1. 1trump2,080▼612
  2. 2senate1,186▲198
  3. 3colleague1,029▼372
  4. 4funding764▲226
  5. 5american739▲59
  6. 6federal684▲104
  7. 7million678▲290
  8. 8administration569▼215
  9. 9durbin533▼34
  10. 10demand520▼67
  11. 11protect492▼110
  12. 12national468▼41
  13. 13health442▼34
  14. 14committee427▲63
  15. 15warren408▲23
  16. 16schiff400▲69
  17. 17america398▲155
  18. 18resolution393▼46
  19. 19hearing391▼40
  20. 20merkley385▲41
  21. 21democrat384▲122
  22. 22president371▼281
  23. 23gillibrand364▲222
  24. 24secure363▲180
  25. 25republican356▼61
  26. 26wyden349▼13
  27. 27icymi347▲32
  28. 28state346▲72
  29. 29padilla340▲2
  30. 30kaine336▲6

Frequency over time

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

trumpsenatecolleaguefundingamerican

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)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
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
funding
  1. 1Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)519
  2. 2Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)448
  3. 3Martin Heinrich (D-NM)Heinrich (D-NM)372
american
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)773
  2. 2Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)593
  3. 3Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)593

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.

Term:

Top headlines from spike weeks

  1. Week of Feb 23, 2026 · Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD)
    Hoyer Announces Founder and CEO of LifeStyles of Maryland Sandy Washington as His State of the Union Guest
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
    Shaheen, Murkowski Seek Immediate Explanation for Department of Homeland Security’s Erroneous and Threatening Email to Ukrainians in the United States
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
    Slotkin, Peters, Baldwin Lay Out Worker-First American Trade Policy
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA)
    Kamlager-Dove Announces Sylvia B. Joyner as her Joint Address Guest
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
    Hyde-smith Targets Criminal Illegal Aliens WITH VOTE for Laken Riley ACT