US congressional documents without PDF chapters....

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text

1118 pages with no chapter links...

html version has links but why not the PDF??!?!?

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BertramDitore@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I hate this shit.

If I had to guess though, it’s probably because whatever lowly congressional staffer that exported the document didn’t have the Acrobat Pro license, because that takes a whole separate procurement process. Or some other stupid shit like that.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

The has Acrobat Pro but DOGE cancelled the license to save money.

Kaboom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y

Have you seen the procurement chart? The bureaucracy is ridiculous and they still can't pass an audit

hogmomma@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Am I missing something or does "This text has been loaded in plain text format due to the large size of the XML/HTML file. Loading the XML/HTML in a new window (2MB) may take several minutes or possibly cause your browser to become unresponsive" mean nothing? I could very well be missing something.

curiousPJ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

You can download the HTML version which does have links...but it's barebones with no styling. Who reads documents as html??