The Sunlight Foundation has released a funny yet meaningless report about CongressCritters' favorite words. Their Capitol Words project takes speeches recorded in the Congressional Record to calculate the frequency of specific words used by each member of Congress. When I clicked on North Carolina on their interactive map I found out the following:
- Over the last year (April 22, 2008 – April 21, 2009) Rep. Virginia Foxx was the biggest chatter box from NC. She uttered 6,021 words. Sen. Richard Burr came in second with 3,083 so you can see that Rep. Foxx took the talking title by a mile.
- Rep. Foxx's favorite word was "democrats" which she uttered 428 times, followed by "energy" at 373 times, "country" at 316 times and "oil" at 229 times.
- Sen. Kay Hagan apparently lost her voice with each only uttering 242 words over the last year. Well, since she's only been there since January I guess we can cut her some slack. Or maybe she's just a "walk softly and carry a big stick" kind of gal.
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