Daily Congressional debate in one word

Gabriela sez,

Bush. Energy. Oil. Caribbean? These were the most frequently uttered words in Congress last week, brought to you by a new site, Capitol Words (http://capitolwords.org). Get an at-a-glance view into the daily proceedings of the United States Congress through the simplest lens available — a single word.

Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Congressional Record for every day that Congress is in session, dating back to the second session of the 106th Congress (January 20, 2000).

It is powered by LOUISdb.org, which scraped the Congressional Record on GPO Access. Sunlight Labs also created an API so you can incorporate the word of the day in your applications.

Link (Thanks, Gabriela!)

[machtweiber June 19, 2008 7:15 AM]

I heard something on NPR this morning which is the likely reason for "Caribbean" being the word of choice last Friday...congress was debating tighter regulation of the cruise industry. As it stands right now, cruise lines are self-policed while aboard and there are many complaints about sexual assault as well as the more rare people disappearing [overboard?]. Cruises are still the safest form of vacation though, according to the NPR segment.

[w000t June 19, 2008 4:33 PM]

I just added the new capitolwords.org widget on my Chumby last night and was wondering what "caribbean" was about. Also somewhat interesting was that the entire week of June 2-6 the word was "energy."

[DizzyMsLizzy June 23, 2008 10:02 AM]

Hi there,
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/

Thanks much.