It deals with the thematic characterization of the votes made by federal deputies during the voting session in the Chamber of Deputies that accepted the opening of the impeachment process of the President of the Republic Dilnna Rousseff in 2015. After the voting process, there were criticisms regarding the content of the votes of the parliamentarians for containing excessive citations to family members and particular motivations to the detriment of the public interest. To investigate the information items representing votes, this research focused on understanding the themes that supported each vote, in addition to ascertaining whether the criticisms are valid. The central objective was to identify, from the speeches made, the informational context and thus determine the key thematic items of each vote cast. From a qualitative approach, using the principles of similarity, differences, synonymy relationship and having as empirical object of study the individual shorthand notes of each speech given by parliamentarians, it was possible to create five macro categories for grouping the identified key items. 1,348 key items were identified, cited by parliamentarians as identifiers of speeches. Dividing this number by the total number of voters, 504 deputies, the average of almost 3 specific key items per vote is reached. The data collected show that in the parliamentary rhetoric during the voting process, the key item that characterizes the most recurring votes, whether for or against, was the "Brazilian people".
