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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, 2025. No prior window — counts only.

  1. 1trump12,319
  2. 2congressman5,928
  3. 3colleague4,358
  4. 4house4,333
  5. 5funding4,215
  6. 6federal3,915
  7. 7american3,798
  8. 8administration3,763
  9. 9senate3,643
  10. 10republican3,400
  11. 11health3,310
  12. 12president3,267
  13. 13protect3,263
  14. 14million3,128
  15. 15demand2,933
  16. 16national2,909
  17. 17congresswoman2,905
  18. 18resolution2,631
  19. 19reintroduce2,392
  20. 20committee2,391
  21. 21security2,232
  22. 22congressional2,154
  23. 23democrat2,144
  24. 24service2,069
  25. 25state2,067
  26. 26member1,997
  27. 27veteran1,977
  28. 28secretary1,954
  29. 29government1,950
  30. 30icymi1,940

Frequency over time

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

trumpcongressmancolleaguehousefunding

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
congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)356
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)333
  3. 3MLLawler (R-NY)327
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
house
  1. 1HJJeffries (D-NY)558
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)349
  3. 3Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)Rochester (D-DE)337
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

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. pressleyD 409 · R 0
  2. ansariD 263 · R 0
  3. residenteD 227 · R 0
  4. comisionadoD 227 · R 0
  5. jayapalD 350 · R 1
  6. walkinshawD 157 · R 0
  7. lizzieD 146 · R 0
  8. balintD 143 · R 0
  9. simonD 143 · R 0
  10. nikemaD 131 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 248
  2. arringtonD 1 · R 239
  3. patroniD 0 · R 92
  4. tubervilleD 4 · R 453
  5. columnD 1 · R 175
  6. chairwomanD 0 · R 83
  7. katieD 5 · R 499
  8. fedorchakD 2 · R 237
  9. iowanD 0 · R 76
  10. wyomingD 1 · R 146

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