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Good point, make that into a 55k page recommendation and attach it to a morality bill, then congress will look at it.

If by "look at it" you mean "ignore it and vote based upon the title of the bill, its nominal purpose, which party proposed the bill, and how the party whips say to vote on it"...then yes, Congress will "look at it".

A lot of the paperwork in these kinds of cases is the volume of evidence rather than the complexity of the regulations. Even if the regulations were written extremely simply, it would still be expensive / time-consuming to sift through 100k+ of a company's documents looking for evidence.

Define 'better.' Now try to get everyone else to agree. Good luck!

Seriously, the federal government has actually been trying to improve this since the 90s: http://www.plainlanguage.gov/

Unfortunately, Congress doesn't have to follow these guidelines.