Don’t have the patience to follow the goings-on on Capitol Hill? Wouldn’t be caught dead watching C-Span? Well, here’s the simplest way in the world to know what the hot button issue of the day is, and it will take you all of 5 seconds to use. It’s CapitolWords, a site that scans the Congressional Record and tallies up all the words used the previous day and then provides the one word used the most. Today it’s "oil". Cool thing is it goes all the way back to 2000 so you can see the words that were hottest for the last eight years.
These are the words for the 13 session days of June reported so far:
energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, bush, energy, oil, energy, caribbean, tax, health, oil. Nine out of thirteen are either energy or oil. Go figure.
Hat tip to bookofjoe for the lead.
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Hi,
I work @ Sunlight. Glad you liked Capitol Words. Our Labs created a widget to make it easier for you to show the words on your site:
http://capitolwords.org/about/
Lizzie Nolan
Communications Assistant
The Sunlight Foundation
enolan@sunlightfoundation.com
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com
Hey,
umm hey it is me again…
Thought you would like to know that we’ve just launched a brand new version of Capitol Words.
Here is the link: http://capitolwords.org/.
Capitol Words now has more information you can see what the most said words are over the period of a year, the whole Congress, month, and even day.You can also see what words a lawmaker is saying the most. These improvements give users an at-glance view and better understanding of what is happening in the halls of Congress.
I hope you find the new Capitol Words more useful. Feel free to contact me.
Thanks for your support,
Lizzie
Communications Assistant
The Sunlight Foundation
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com