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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. 1trump91▼59
  2. 2national51▲1
  3. 3protect47▼8
  4. 4colleague45▲4
  5. 5congressman45▼22
  6. 6million42▼5
  7. 7federal41▼6
  8. 8funding40▼52
  9. 9american40▼18
  10. 10demand39▲3
  11. 11familie35▲3
  12. 12senate34▼20
  13. 13project34▲10
  14. 14committee33▼9
  15. 15security33▼8
  16. 16service32▼4
  17. 17house30▼86
  18. 18administration30▼7
  19. 19secure29▼45
  20. 20america27▼22
  21. 21congressional26▲4
  22. 22delegation25▲7
  23. 23right24▲2
  24. 24taxpayer22▲13
  25. 25merkley22▲5
  26. 26passage22▼40
  27. 27fraud21▲9
  28. 28republican21▼61
  29. 29congresswoman21▼12
  30. 30student21▲9

Frequency over time

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

trumpnationalprotectcolleaguecongressman

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
national
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)596
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)438
  3. 3Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)Duckworth (D-IL)426
protect
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)502
  2. 2Alex Padilla (D-CA)Padilla (D-CA)396
  3. 3Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)395
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
congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)356
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)333
  3. 3MLLawler (R-NY)327

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