People are much more likely to consult such evaluative statements than the actual text of a bill or law under discussion , given the dense nature of legislative language and the fact that ( U.S. ) bills often reach several hundred pages in length ( Smith et al. , 2005 ) .
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S S Smith J M Roberts R J Vander Wielen
Evaluative and persuasive documents , such as a politician 's speech regarding a bill or a blogger 's commentary on a legislative proposal , form a particularly interesting type of politically oriented text . People are much more likely to consult such evaluative statements than the actual text of a bill or law under discussion , given the dense nature of legislative language and the fact that ( U.S. ) bills often reach several hundred pages in length ( Smith et al. , 2005 ) . Moreover , political opinions are exsional bills and related data was launched in January 1995 , when Mosaic was not quite two years old and Altavista did not yet exist .
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