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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. 1trump1,629▼1698
  2. 2senate906▼477
  3. 3colleague772▼884
  4. 4funding646▼52
  5. 5american585▼275
  6. 6million537▲12
  7. 7federal533▼155
  8. 8administration461▼538
  9. 9durbin436▼296
  10. 10national388▼243
  11. 11demand382▼337
  12. 12protect376▼337
  13. 13health354▼274
  14. 14warren318▼121
  15. 15resolution317▼228
  16. 16republican311▼421
  17. 17hearing307▼260
  18. 18democrat301▼33
  19. 19secure295▲29
  20. 20america293▼30
  21. 21schiff292▼134
  22. 22gillibrand292▲114
  23. 23president291▼501
  24. 24state289▼75
  25. 25merkley287▼159
  26. 26committee286▼185
  27. 27secretary275▼473
  28. 28wyden273▼196
  29. 29kaine262▼156
  30. 30icymi252▼175

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)841
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)644
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)601
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
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
funding
  1. 1Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)486
  2. 2Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)419
  3. 3Martin Heinrich (D-NM)Heinrich (D-NM)339
american
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)733
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)535
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)500

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