WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 17: Elouise Cobell (L) and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (L) participate in a Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on December 17, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee was hearing testimony on the proposed settlement in the case of Cobell v. Salazar, a class-action lawsuit filed by Native American representatives against the United States. The plaintiffs claim that the U.S. government incorrectly accounted for Indian trust assets which belong to individual Native Americans. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
