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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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Top stems in release titles since January 1, 2026, with the change versus the same calendar window in 2025.

  1. 1trump3,7721246
  2. 2congressman2,01888
  3. 3funding1,991893
  4. 4million1,653974
  5. 5house1,622124
  6. 6federal1,527217
  7. 7american1,39069
  8. 8senate1,308224
  9. 9colleague1,282472
  10. 10protect1,10679
  11. 11demand1,10298
  12. 12secure1,073766
  13. 13national1,044139
  14. 14resolution1,00475
  15. 15administration997406
  16. 16health99570
  17. 17state986400
  18. 18committee97078
  19. 19congresswoman900136
  20. 20america899396
  21. 21president856728
  22. 22project833586
  23. 23security81571
  24. 24congressional79128
  25. 25member765110
  26. 26service75122
  27. 27republican749362
  28. 28hearing74579
  29. 29icymi721134
  30. 30passe718309

Frequency over time

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

trumpcongressmanfundingmillionhouse

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.

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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