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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.
Trending now
Top stems in release titles from January 1 through now, compared with January 1 through the same timestamp one calendar year earlier.
- 1trump4,864▼3467
- 2congressman2,591▼1041
- 3funding2,401▲288
- 4million2,324▲898
- 5federal2,096▼255
- 6house1,974▼529
- 7american1,770▼580
- 8senate1,734▼479
- 9colleague1,726▼1223
- 10demand1,533▼269
- 11protect1,528▼488
- 12administration1,394▼1195
- 13national1,338▼418
- 14secure1,301▲577
- 15health1,274▼661
- 16resolution1,256▼321
- 17state1,201▲146
- 18committee1,176▼330
- 19congresswoman1,160▼658
- 20president1,084▼1242
- 21america1,079▲161
- 22service1,005▼266
- 23icymi1,002▼231
- 24project1,002▲450
- 25congressional995▼320
- 26security969▼460
- 27member966▼173
- 28passe961▲121
- 29hearing890▼293
- 30familie885▼165
Frequency over time
Weekly mentions of selected terms across every record in the archive. This chart queries the whole corpus, including the state and executive collections, and ignores the chamber filter above. Add or remove terms to compare.
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.
- 1
Durbin (D-IL)950 - 2
Murray (D-WA)755 - 3
Warren (D-MA)752
- 1HGGriffith (R-VA)426
- 2CPPappas (D-NH)412
- 3RKKrishnamoorthi (D-IL)394
- 1Murray (D-WA)578
- 2Durbin (D-IL)489
- 3
Heinrich (D-NM)406
- 1Durbin (D-IL)503
- 2Murray (D-WA)477
- 3Warren (D-MA)420
- 1Durbin (D-IL)767
- 2
Padilla (D-CA)609 - 3
Grassley (R-IA)598
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.
- pressleyD 506 · R 0
- ansariD 311 · R 0
- comisionadoD 307 · R 0
- residenteD 305 · R 0
- balintD 162 · R 0
- lizzieD 162 · R 0
- nikemaD 154 · R 0
- rivaD 147 · R 0
- massachusettD 143 · R 0
- jayapalD 429 · R 2
- amataD 1 · R 318
- highD 0 · R 151
- arringtonD 1 · R 255
- loudermilkD 0 · R 112
- columnD 1 · R 216
- chairwomanD 0 · R 104
- katieD 5 · R 577
- fedorchakD 2 · R 267
- iowanD 0 · R 87
- tubervilleD 5 · R 504
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.
Top headlines from spike weeks
- Week of Feb 23, 2026 · Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)Shaheen, Colleagues Unveil New Legislation Requiring Refunds of Trump’s Illegal Tariffs Following Landmark SCOTUS Ruling
- Week of Apr 7, 2025 · Jack Reed (D-RI)Reed Leads Calls for Hearings on Trump’s Tariff Chaos & Misuse of Executive Power
- Week of Mar 31, 2025 · Andy Kim (D-NJ)Senator Andy Kim Hears From New Jersey Parents About Devastating Realities of Medicaid and Department of Education Cuts for Disability Community as Budget Fight Continues
- Week of Mar 3, 2025 · Jesús G. García (D-IL)El Congresista García Destacará los Ataques a los Derechos de los Veteranos y los Trabajadores en el Discurso Presidencial Conjunto
- Week of Jan 20, 2025 · Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)Schakowsky to Skip Inauguration, Instead Will Attend MLK Day Celebrations