I noticed that today's Senate healthcare reform bill appears to be laid out in TeX (https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BetterCareJuly13.2017.pdf). Does anyone on HN have insight into the production process that resulted in that final document?
It's typically a small group of people who create the bill. (Like a Senator and their staff) It gets proposed to a subcommittee who reads it (I believe they also give feedback) and then accept/reject it. If accepted it then gets passed to the entire Senate/House for people to read and accept/reject.
If you're curious about how the actual writing occurs, I'm sure its nothing special. Just like writing a group paper in school.
1: http://blynken.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-bill-geek-st...
I'm actually curious to know whether this assumption is accurate. Do they really collaborate? Do they read their own bills when they're this long? Or do their staff handle all of this? Do they really read each other's bills? Does one senator's staff just write a bill by itself, and then everyone else agrees to the language? Or do they collaborate from the beginning?
I've read before that Congresspeople spend almost 100% of their time fundraising and very little time legislating. I imagine their staff must handle the rest.