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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href='http://www.gpo.gov'>www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. AKIN:H.R. 197.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutionprovides, ``. . . nor shall private property be taken forpublic use, without just compensation.'' The United StatesConstitution, Article I, Sec. 8, cl. 1, vests Congress withthe exclusive power ``to pay the Debts . . . of the UnitedStates.'' The Constitution, thus, grants to Congress theexclusive power and authority to define the jurisdiction ofthe Court of Federal Claims and ``the power to waive the resjudicata effect of a prior judgment entered in theGovernment's favor on a claim against the United States. . .. Congress may recognize its obligation to pay a moral debtnot only by direct appropriation, but also by waiving anotherwise valid defense to a legal claim against the UnitedStates'' United States v. Sioux Nation, 448 U.S. 371, 397(1980) citing, Cherokee Nation v. United States, 270 U.S. 476(1926) and United States v. Realty, Co. 163 U.S. 427 (1896).[Page H103]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <text><![CDATA[ Confers upon the U.S. Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal or equitable claim against the United States to receive just compensation for the taking of certain lands in the state of Missouri by reason of the decision and notice of interim trail use or abandonment authorized by the National Trails System Act and decided by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on March 25, 1992.]]></text>
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    <title>To confer upon the United States Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal or equitable claim against the United States to receive just compensation for the taking of certain lands in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.</title>
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