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[OC] In the last 90 days, 144/435 House members and 59/100 U.S. senators have mentioned "gas prices" in a press release — interactive archive of every release from all 535 members of Congress
I'm a journalist turned web developer with 15+ years in reporting. I built Capitol Releases — an interactive archive of every press release from every U.S. senator and representative since January 2025. 85,242 records across all 535 members, updated four times a day from each member's official .gov site.
The chamber view (slides 1 & 2) shows every member colored by party. Pick any search term and the chamber re-colors by who's mentioned it. Both slides here show "gas prices" as a matched pair — same term, both chambers, last 90 days:
Senate: 59 of 100 senators mentioned gas prices (Schiff leads with 16)
House: 144 of 435 voting members mentioned gas prices (Jeffries leads with 31)
Try other terms and the numbers shift hard. In the last 90 days:
Trump — 99 of 100 senators, 380 of 435 House members
Iran — 86 of 100 senators, 268 of 435 House members
Tariffs — 63 of 100 senators, 164 of 435 House members
Ukraine — 43 of 100 senators, only 39 of 435 House members
The trending view (slide 3) ranks every word stem in release titles by 30-day count and shows a weekly time series across all members — pick any combination of terms and compare them over time.
Member detail (slide 4): each member gets a page with release cadence as a calendar heatmap, what they're talking about lately with week-over-week word deltas, and "topics they own" — words they use disproportionately compared to peers.
Go to capitolreleases.com and search any term yourself — your representative's name, your district's issue, anything that's been in a press release since January 2025. Also in there: a daily AI-generated brief, deletion detection (tombstones for anything pulled from a member's site after publication), Congressional Record floor speeches, and a feed of 44 verified senate Bluesky accounts.
Site: capitolreleases.com
Github: github.com/tbrown034/capitol-releases
Source: Each member's official .gov press page (e.g. durbin.senate.gov/news, jeffries.house.gov/media), collected via scraping and updated daily via GitHub Actions
Tools: Python (httpx, BeautifulSoup, Playwright), PostgreSQL (Neon), Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind 4, D3, TypeScript. Claude Haiku 4.5 for post-collection quality checks (advisory, not editorial).