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grandmother died without receiving his $50,000. tlerp so many complaints against the usda that i really thought the new york times article was a gross mischaracterization of the process. so congresswoman, i think that s been my absolutely concern. i ve been waiting for a front page story about pickford, but then the frontpage story that we get ends up sounding to me like some kind of agricultural welfare queen anxiety. exactly. that s such a gross mischaracterization. years and years, decades of being unfairly treated by the usda and not being able to get loans. i mean, my grandfather talked about it inscessantincessantly. he farmed in alabama. across my district so many were adversely affected that land is
black farmers filed suit against the usda in the case of pik fckd versus gli man. in 199, a judge agreed leading to more than a billion dollars in compensation. in the process of paying out the compensation, the government denied proxly 30% of farmers claims. so concerns about the the process led to a second settlement, known as pickford two, in 2010. the u.s. department of justice agreed to $1.25 billion settlement which began paying out claims last year. many agreed justice had come to generations of black farmers but last week this headline hit the front page of the new york times. the article detailed the allegation of claims that pik ford 2 characterized as a runaway claim.
the article. and a lot of us really concerned about the appropriate rated money already set aside for the current pickford two settlement, those checks actually coming to the discriminated black farmers. i think we in congress have appropriated the biography. it s incumbent upon us to get the waste fraud out of the system. i feel it was a miskarvgtization for this article and this journalist to suggest all the claims or the majority of the claims were fraudulent. i can tell you as i go across the district i hear time and time again how they were selling against. how they had to sell the land. they were talking about farmers here. what s more american than our farmers. i just think that it s really sad at this day and age that we would try to make this a racial
of what their particular constituents are saying, and trying to align with that often times. you know, that s how political races work. april ryan. thank you, mr. president. i want to ask a couple questions. on your economy, could you discuss your efforts on reviewing history as it relates to the poverty agenda, meaning lbj and dr. king, and also, since senate republicans are holding up the issue of pickford two, that you will make sure that those awards are funded? let me take the second question for. for those who aren t familiar, cobell and pickford relate to settlements surrounding historic discrimination against minority farmers who weren t oftentimes