Claim: "The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news."
Fact-check: Leonard Lance claims federal tax code contains 4 million words, is 7 times as long as Bible
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Caryn Shinske
Date published: 2013-05-02T00:00:00