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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have - wait for it, wait for it! - written a letter to the administration asking why the White House has put itself on the hook for spending 1.5 billion on one of Sen. Blanche Lincolns farm relief causes while not being able to find 1.2 billion to pay the 1999 Pigford settlement to minority farmers*. "The current hardships experienced by other farmers should not trump hardships placed on African Americans and Native Americans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture  

African-American lawmakers are irate that the Obama administration has promised Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) $1.5 billion in farm aid while claiming it can't pay a landmark legal settlement with black farmers. Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to President Obama on Thursday calling on him to find a way to compensate black farmers who suffered discrimination in government loan programs during the 1980s and 1990s. The letter was spurred by behind-the-scenes deal-making in the Senate a  

The U.S. Senate has rejected a $3.4 billion government settlement with American Indians that had been added to a much larger war-funding bill.  

The latest round-up of News From Indian Country on the Native News Update from the studios on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation at Reserve, Wisconsin with host Paul DeMain.  

Elouise Cobell is still confident that Congress will approve a $3.4 billion settlement of an Indian trust lawsuit in which she is the lead plaintiff, despite authorization being stripped out of a defense spending bill earlier this week.  

HELENA, Mont. The U.S. Senate has rejected a $3.4 billion government settlement with American Indians that had been added to a much larger war-funding bill.  

HELENA, Mont. The U.S. Senate has rejected a $3.4 billion government settlement with American Indians that had been added to a much larger war-funding bill.  

HELENA, Mont. The U.S. Senate has rejected a $3.4 billion government settlement with American Indians that had been added to a much larger war-funding bill.  

The lawyers in the Cobell case today agreed to another extension to give Congress more time to approve, or deny, legislation that would implement the $3.4 billion settlement in an Indian trust case that has been ongoing in Washington federal district court for more than a decade.