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28 U.S.C. § 1492 — Congressional reference cases
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Any bill, except a bill for a pension, may be referred by either House of Congress to the chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a report in conformity with [section 2509 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section2509&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Any bill, except a bill for a pension, may be referred by either House of Congress to the chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a report in conformity with [section 2509 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section2509&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** Whenever a bill, except a bill for a pension, is referred by either House of Congress to the chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims pursuant to [section 1492 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1492&num=0&edition=prelim), the chief judge shall designate a judge as hearing officer for the case and a panel of three judges of the court to serve as a reviewing body. One member of the review panel shall be designated as presiding officer of the panel.
**(b)** Proceedings in a congressional reference case shall be under rules and regulations prescribed for the purpose by the chief judge who is hereby authorized and directed to require the application of the pertinent rules of practice of the Court of Federal Claims insofar as feasible. Each hearing officer and each review panel shall have authority to do and perform any acts which may be necessary or proper for the efficient performance of their duties, including the power of subpena and the power to administer oaths and affirmations. None of the rules, rulings, findings, or conclusions authorized by this section shall be subject to judicial review.
**(c)** The hearing officer to whom a congressional reference case is assigned by the chief judge shall proceed in accordance with the applicable rules to determine the facts, including facts relating to delay or laches, facts bearing upon the question whether the bar of any statute of limitation should be removed, or facts claimed to excuse the claimant for not having resorted to any established legal remedy. He shall append to his findings of fact conclusions sufficient to inform Congress whether the demand is a legal or equitable claim or a gratuity, and the amount, if any, legally or equitably d
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All decisions of the Court of International Trade shall be preserved and open to inspection. The court shall forward copies of each decision to the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee and to the appropriate customs officer for the district in which the case arose. The Secretary shall publish weekly such decisions as he or the court may designate and abstracts of all other decisions.
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**(a)** The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, sixteen judges who shall constitute a court of record known as the United States Court of Federal Claims. The court is declared to be a court established under article I of the Constitution of the United States.
**(b)** The President shall designate one of the judges of the Court of Federal Claims who is less than seventy years of age to serve as chief judge. The chief judge may continue to serve as such until he reaches the age of seventy years or until another judge is designated as chief judge by the President. After the designation of another judge to serve as chief judge, the former chief judge may continue to serve as a judge of the court for the balance of the term to which appointed.
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 1492
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘thereon,’’.
§ 1492. Congressional reference cases
Any bill, except a bill for a pension, may be re-
ferred by either House of Congress to the chief
judge of the United States Court of Federal
Claims for a report in conformity with section
2509 of this title.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 941; Pub. L. 89–681,
§ 1, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 958; Pub. L. 97–164, title
I, § 133(b), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 40; Pub. L. 102–572,
title IX, § 902(a)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 257 (Mar. 3, 1911,
ch. 231, § 151, 36 Stat. 1138).
This section contains only the jurisdictional provi-
sion of section 257 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed. The proce-
dural provisions are incorporated in section 2509 of this
title.
Changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1992—Pub. L. 102–572 substituted ‘‘United States
Court of Federal Claims’’ for ‘‘United States Claims
Court’’.
1982—Pub. L. 97–164 substituted ‘‘chief judge of the
United States Claims Court’’ for ‘‘chief commissioner
of the Court of Claims’’.
1966—Pub. L. 89–681 substituted provisions allowing
any bill, except a bill for a pension, to be referred by
either House of Congress to the chief commissioner of
the Court of Claims for a report in conformity with sec-
tion 2509 of this title for provisions giving the Court of
Claims jurisdiction to report to either House of Con-
gress on any bill referred by such House, except a bill
for a pension, and to render judgment if the claim
against the United States represented by the referred
bill was one over which the court had jurisdiction
under other Acts of Congress.
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