[Robelius]

It also has an .xml extension. For some reason, I always imagined someone writing bills in Microsoft Word.

Now I'm curious. I assume they used typewriters before XML, and and writing before that. Anyone know how the length of the bills have changed over time, and how that maps to different technologies?

[robjan]

This document was probably written in WordPerfect which is popular in the legal profession due to the typesetting options. It stores its documents in XML format.