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Making Bills Easier to Read

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Plain English is a good start. But another important thing might be to make sure that there's always a text-searchable version of a bill available, preferably in PDF. Not always, but sometimes, I'll come across an enormous bill that isn't searchable in PDF, which can make it a mess to examine, particularly if I just want to see if it addresses a certain issue.

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