I know literally next to nothing about this, so beware my comment. However, I'm pretty sure that " tens to hundreds of senators or representatives collaborate" is not a thing for bills.

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.

That was created with Adobe Acrobat Distiller -- That font isn't CMR, it's New Century Schoolbook (The Supreme Court likes that font as well). There's also a "gpospec5" font (perhaps GPO is the Government Printing/Publishing Office). I could only find a handful of references the the gpospec5 font, including this one [1] on the previous healthcare bill. Windows user ERN was involved with both, so I would guess he's a GPO employee.

1: http://blynken.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-bill-geek-st...

> how do tens to hundreds of senators or representatives collaborate

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.