在联邦法院的管理工作中实行自动化的动力多半来自国会。 1967年,国会在拨出专款建立联邦司法中心的时候,就抓住了联邦法院必须跟上时代步伐这一环节。参议院的报告指出,“计算机革命,虽然正席卷着我国的金融和工业企业,然而在法院系统里迄今却很少有所进展”。因此在国会的命令中,指示联邦司法中心领导机构 Much of the impetus for automation in federal court administration comes from Congress. In 1967, Congress allocated a special fund to set up a federal justice center, it seized the federal court must keep up with the pace of the times this link. The Senate report states that “the computer revolution, while sweeping over China’s financial and industrial enterprises, has made little progress in the court system so far.” Therefore, in Congress’s order, it directs the leadership of the Federal Justice Center