Reason number 1,918 the Internet is great: Capitol Words, a project from the transparency group the Sunlight Foundation, scrapes the Congressional Record so users can search the most-used words and phrases in Congress. The website, capitolwords.org, updates daily and includes records going back to 1996.

Above are the most telling word-trends we found in the Arkansas delegation.

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