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

  1. 1trump80▼61
  2. 2colleague80▲31
  3. 3protect38▼14
  4. 4federal37▼10
  5. 5senate37▼31
  6. 6congressman36▼57
  7. 7demand36▼16
  8. 8committee35▼66
  9. 9administration32▲7
  10. 10american29▼31
  11. 11funding28▼30
  12. 12service25▲2
  13. 13merkley25▲12
  14. 14rural24▲17
  15. 15health24▼11
  16. 16icymi24▼14
  17. 17reintroduce22▲9
  18. 18veteran22▲12
  19. 19million22▼20
  20. 20program22▲11
  21. 21national21▼49
  22. 22wyden20▲2
  23. 23transparency19▼7
  24. 24resolution19▼48
  25. 25answer18▲1
  26. 26restore18▲9
  27. 27familie17▼12
  28. 28member17▼18
  29. 29right17▼9
  30. 30america17▼25

Frequency over time

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

trumpcolleagueprotectfederalsenate

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
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
protect
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)531
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)444
  3. 3Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)424
federal
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)704
  2. 2Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)559
  3. 3Chuck Grassley (R-IA)Grassley (R-IA)546
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

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 444 · R 0
  2. ansariD 275 · R 0
  3. residenteD 251 · R 0
  4. comisionadoD 251 · R 0
  5. jayapalD 378 · R 1
  6. walkinshawD 182 · R 0
  7. simonD 160 · R 0
  8. balintD 156 · R 0
  9. lizzieD 153 · R 0
  10. nikemaD 140 · R 0
Republican-coded
  1. amataD 1 · R 275
  2. arringtonD 1 · R 248
  3. loudermilkD 0 · R 111
  4. patroniD 0 · R 100
  5. columnD 1 · R 194
  6. tubervilleD 4 · R 477
  7. chairwomanD 0 · R 91
  8. katieD 5 · R 528
  9. fedorchakD 2 · R 240
  10. iowanD 0 · R 79

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.

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Top headlines from spike weeks

  1. Week of Feb 23, 2026 · Riley M. Moore (R-WV)
    Congressman Riley M. Moore Presents Official Report to the White House with Solutions to End Christian Persecution in Nigeria
  2. Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Deb Fischer (R-NE)
    Fischer Joins “Mornings with Maria” to Discuss Fulfilling Promises to Americans
  3. Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
    Schumer Localizes Budget Danger: Under GOP PLAN to Cripple Medicaid, Countless SI Seniors Could BE Discharged FROM Nursing Homes, Rehab Facilities & Assisted Living; Senator Demands GOP Block Trump...
  4. Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Emily Randall (D-WA)
    Congresswoman Randall Announces Ashley Jones as Special Guest for Congressional Joint Address
  5. Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
    Congressman Biggs Issues Statement on President Donald Trump’s Historic Inauguration