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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, 2026, with the change versus the same calendar window in 2025.

  1. 1trump3,062▼3138
  2. 2funding1,742▲273
  3. 3congressman1,678▼1081
  4. 4million1,387▲420
  5. 5house1,309▼594
  6. 6federal1,215▼372
  7. 7american1,121▼560
  8. 8senate1,000▼548
  9. 9colleague982▼1114
  10. 10secure915▲453
  11. 11protect870▼591
  12. 12demand861▼410
  13. 13state852▲95
  14. 14national834▼348
  15. 15health824▼403
  16. 16resolution823▼339
  17. 17administration809▼954
  18. 18congresswoman739▼641
  19. 19project733▲403
  20. 20president700▼1234
  21. 21committee698▼425
  22. 22security680▼391
  23. 23america646▼37
  24. 24congressional631▼387
  25. 25member624▼202
  26. 26republican613▼1039
  27. 27service603▼320
  28. 28hearing594▼301
  29. 29secretary575▼517
  30. 30familie560▼186

Frequency over time

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

trumpfundingcongressmanmillionhouse

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
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
congressman
  1. 1CPPappas (D-NH)356
  2. 2HGGriffith (R-VA)333
  3. 3MLLawler (R-NY)327
million
  1. 1Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)Durbin (D-IL)434
  2. 2Patty Murray (D-WA)Murray (D-WA)410
  3. 3Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)Warren (D-MA)328
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

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