# sunlight.capitolwords

For every day Congress is in session, Capitol Words visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record, giving you an at-a-glance view of which issues lawmakers address on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Capitol Words lets you see what are the most popular words spoken by lawmakers on the House and Senate floor.

`capitolwords.``dates`(phrase, **kwargs)

  Retrieve information regarding the popularity of a phrase over a period of time.

  For a list of optional arguments see Capitol Words’ dates.json endpoint.

`capitolwords.``phrases`(entity_type, entity_value, **kwargs)

  Retrieve information on the top phrases for an facet.

  A facet can be any date, month, state or legislator.

  For a list of arguments see Capitol Words’ phrases.json endpoint.

`capitolwords.``phrases_by_entity`(entity_type, **kwargs)

  Get listing of top facets for a given phrase.

  A facet can be any date, month, state or legislator.

  For a list of arguments see Capitol Words’ phrases/entity.json endpoint.

`capitolwords.``text`(phrase=None, title=None, **kwargs)

  Full text-search against Capitol Words data.

  Neither `phrase` nor `title` are required, but one or the other must be used. If both are omitted, a `sunlight.errors.BadRequestException` will be thrown.

  `phrase` will do a full-text search on that phrase, whereas `title` will doa full-text search on the title of each CR (Congressional Record) document.

  For a list of arguments see Capitol Words’ text.json endpoint.