John McCain actually said...

I am sorry I was not here to ask the Senator from North Dakota how you want to have a commission to cut spending and at the same time approv...

no settlement would be approved by this Committee that does not provide for actual payment to the Indians before payment of untold millions ...

most of it was not for purposes of reducing spending. It was for moving money around for different priorities.

And the last effort did not meet that constitutional requirement because?