FOOTNOTES

Footnote *

Justice Souter and Justice Breyer join this opinion in its entirety. Justice Scalia joins this opinion except for Part III.

FOOTNOTES

Footnote 1

As Chief Justice Marshall stated, "Where the mind labours to discover the design of the legislature, it seizes every thing from which aid can be derived ... ." United States v. Fisher, 2 Cranch 358, 386 (1805).

Footnote 2

See ante, at 14. Specifically, three months after the Senate passed the relevant amendment, the NACBA submitted written comments to the House Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law, which was considering the change. Those comments first noted that the amended version of §330(a)(1) "appears to have some minor drafting errors, including the apparently inadvertent removal of debtors' attorneys from the list of professionals whose compensation awards are covered." Bankruptcy Reform: Hearing on H. R. 5116 before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 103d Cong., 2d Sess., 551 (1994). With no proviso that these alleged errors be corrected, the NACBA then expressly did "not oppose" passage of the amendment. Ibid. (emphasis added).