Bill Support by Page Length 

 There was a lot of press on the 1,000+-page length of the House health care bill, H.R. 3962. That got me thinking... didn't we hear the same thing about the stimulus bill and the Patriot Act? Aren't most "controversial" bills also very long? 

 It would make sense. Controversial bills require a lot more ink -- pork, special cases, exceptions -- to reel in support. Uncontroversial bills can be written succinctly and pass as is. 

 To assess this I scraped bills from  OpenCongress , which maintains the full text, voting results and amendment history of House and Senate Resolutions. You can even comment on specific portions of bills. There's already a bunch of neat comments on potential loopholes in H.R. 3962. 

 I downloaded the text and voting results for all 152 House resolutions passed by the 111th House. A boxplot of page length against support appears below. Each page length group represents roughly 20% of House resolutions. The plot shows the suspected trend, that longer bills have less support. One-page bills almost always pass unanimously!