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Article: Congress Grants Interior Department Reprieve on Accounting for Indian Trusts.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 4, 2003
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By Mike Soraghan, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 4--WASHINGTON--The Bush administration and congressional Republicans have given Interior Secretary Gale Norton a temporary reprieve from what she has described as the most vexing problem of her tenure -- the Indian trust case.
The Senate gave final approval Monday night to a deal, hustled through Congress in a spending bill, delaying for at least a year a judge's order that the federal government conduct a full accounting of botched records of Indians dating back to 1887. Norton has estimated the accounting will cost between $6 billion and $12 billion.
"This ...