Republicans and other skeptics of the health care reform legislation approved by the House on Saturday like to mock its length. To wit:

"It's a monstrosity," House Minority Leader John Boehner told Fox News.

Originally clocking in at 1,990 pages -- the number itself now a rallying cry for Republicans -- the House bill has since grown by at least 42 pages. So it's big. And the page length, in turn, can be a proxy for several points: it's too complicated, no one understands it, it's Big Brother breathing down our neck.

But at what point does a bill become a "monstrosity," and presumptively dangerous? Judging simply by length can itself be dangerous, at both ends of the page-count. How about Republican products such as:

Fiscal 2003 Consolidated Appropriations Act: 1,507 pages.

Fiscal 2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act: 1,186 pages.

The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003: 852 pages.

The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002: 407 pages.

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq: 2 pages.

*Methodological Note: In counting bill 'length,' should one count the bill language or the 'report' that includes additional material? Here, Suits & Sentences has taken whichever number was first available. That's deadline blogging, baby...