Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶199

As Congress undertakes the legislative process, congressional committees in the Senate and House often generate official reports that describe Congress's aims for the legislation. See R. Katzmann, Judging Statutes 19–20 (2014) (Katzmann). Indeed, there is evidence that lawmakers themselves pay more attention to these reports than a statute's text to understand the statute's purpose and meaning. A. Gluck & L. Bressman, Statutory Interpretation From the Inside—An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation, and the Canons: Part I, 65 Stan. L. Rev. 901, 965–966, 968–969 (2013); see also Katzmann 37–38. Thus, in contrast to the principal dissent's rejection of Committee Reports as a means of ascertaining a statute's meaning, post, at 344, n. 11 (opinion of Kavanaugh, J.), I think these Senate and House Reports are among the best evidence of what Congress sought to accomplish with…

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