That's fine - I'm going to keep using papers, given that's the literal use in legislature, and it makes more sense that a legislative body is lacking papers, not lacking paper:
white pa·per noun; plural noun: White Papers; a government or other authoritative report giving information or proposals on an issue. On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Corona wrote: > I prefer my uncountable paper, thank you very much. > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > Also, how often do you say "Bring me two papers"? It's > > > usually pieces or sheets, but not papers. The main time you'd hear a > > number > > > of papers is when talking about papers submitted to a conference or > > > journal, not for mere physical sheets. > > > > What if each Paper is actually a Government White Paper describing why > > the proposed legislation is necessary? > > > > > > >