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in the Federal Tort Claims Act Congress allowed the United States to be sued for tort damages under some very limited circumstances as we will see in this presentation on the procedures and provisions of the Act if this is an administrative compensation system and it has to be complied with fairly exactly to get compensation in the next presentation will discuss the discretionary function exception which makes it quite difficult to sue the government for any decisions that are related to government policymaking Federal Tort Claims Act was passed at the 1945 at the end of World War two this was the same period when the Administrative Procedure Act was passed up until then all payments for tort damages were paid through private bills sponsored by individual legislators and passed through Congress and signed by the president there was no judicial review or administrative review of the claims which left the determination of their validity to the individual Congress persons this took a lot