United States: Attorney General Holder, Secretaries Salazar And Vilsack Applaud Final Passage ...

United States: Attorney General Holder, Secretaries Salazar And Vilsack Applaud Final Passage Of The Claims Settlement Act Today, the Departments of Justice, Interior and Agriculture applauded the bipartisan House passage of the Claims Settlement Act. The Act, which recently passed the Senate will provide long-awaited funding for the agreements reached in the Pigford II lawsuit, brought by African American farmers; the Cobell lawsuit, brought by Native Americans over the management of Indian...

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