Interest groups proposed: that the relatively low approval rates (69%) are due to the requirement of the approval order, that applicants must demonstrate that their treatment was “less favorable than that accorded to specially identified similar white farmers,” compounded by poor access to USDA files.16 Table 1 shows that the Court Monitor provides cumulative statistics for track A claims as of December 30, 2011 Z.u at that time, there were also 169 eligible candidates for Track B (1% of the total eligible class members).17 These data are the final data reported by the Court Monitor. At the 111th Congress, Attorney General Holder and Agriculture Minister Vilsack announced a settlement of Pigford II`s claims. In 2010, the government requested $1.15 billion (H.R. 4899) for the Pigford II comparison. Senator Inouye made a change (S.Amdt. .