Thelegislative history suggests that its purpose was to open federal courts to legal claims by foreign ambassadors serving in the U.S., and the statute remained in relative obscurity for its first 171 years, being invoked only three times.
Petitioner has not offered any unequivocal evidence of legislativepurpose which would allow us to override the plain language of section 163(h)(3)(B)(ii) and (C)(ii).
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.