Baucus health care proposal

Baucus Health Care Bill

On September 16, 2009 Senator Baucus introduced a health care bill that the six senators had been working on for some time. It was a 'breaking news' for The Washington Post. This is how they framed it

News Alert - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/F490YD/ITXRM/2CNE95/4MKAK4/7MRIY/W1/t

09:44 AM EDT Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Baucus Unveils 10-Year, $856 Billion Health-Care Package - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/F490YD/ITXRM/2CNE95/4MKAK4/KJ6LL/W1/t

Senate Finance Committee chairman proposes 10-year, $856 billion health care bill.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/F490YD/ITXRM/2CNE95/4MKAK4/WGWAZ/W1/t

I started the Archivist search at 22:00, and there were just over 1,300 micro messages at that time. I am capturing "baucus health care bill" because that seemed to have been used in more messages than other phrasings. 1,300 does not seem enough for trendistic.

Search term was baucus health bill

The search ended on April 6, 2010 with a total of 4693 messages found.

The figure shows the distribution over time.

The two big spikes are early in the process when the Senate committee was working on the legislation.

The files are baucus health care.xml and baucus health care.txt, which is a tab delimited file that an be read with Excel.