United States. STATUTORY INTERPRETATION AND THE USES OF HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ONE HUNDRED FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION APRIL 19, 1990 Serial No. 107 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary 33-653 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia JOHN BRYANT, Texas MEL LEVINE, California GEORGE E. SANGMEISTER, Illinois CRAIG A. WASHINGTON, Texas HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., BILL MCCOLLUM, Florida GEORGE W. GEKAS, Pennsylvania MICHAEL DEWINE, Ohio WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER, California D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR., Virginia CHUCK DOUGLAS, New Hampshire TOM CAMPBELL, California WILLIAM M. JONES, General Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, INTELLECTUAL Property, and tHE ADMINISTRATION OF April 19, 1990....... CONTENTS HEARING DATE Page 1 Kastenmeier, Hon. Robert W., a Representative in Congress from the State of Wisconsin, and chairman, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Breyer, Stephen, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.. Buckley, James L., judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Eskridge, William N., Jr., professor of law, Georgetown University Law Katzmann, Robert A., president, the Governance Institute, and visiting Ross, Stephen F., associate professor, University of Illinois Law School... Wald, Patricia M., Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING Breyer, Stephen, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit: Eskridge, William N., Jr., professor of law, Georgetown University Law 75 Ross, Stephen F., associate professor, University of Illinois Law School: Pre- 97 Wald, Patricia M., Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of 8 "The Sizzling Sleeper: The Use of Legislative History in Construing Statutes in the 1988-89 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court," 39 Am. |