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HELENA, Mont. — A $3.4 billion government settlement with hundreds of thousands of American Indians has been caught in a Senate filibuster.
Congress must authorize the Obama administration’s settlement with Indians who have land held in trust by the Interior Department. The 14-year-old lawsuit claims the government mismanaged those accounts for more than a century.
The settlement is part of the Democrats’ jobs-agenda bill that fell short of breaking a Republican filibuster Thursday. Now the future of the agreement is in doubt.
