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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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.
The has Acrobat Pro but DOGE cancelled the license to save money.
Have you seen the procurement chart? The bureaucracy is ridiculous and they still can't pass an audit
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.
You can download the HTML version which does have links...but it's barebones with no styling. Who reads documents as html??