A federal district court shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline and ordered it drained of oil.

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 quote requires no citation for those in my age bracket. These are, in fact, the only words from any inaugural speech over my lifetime that I can recall. Yet when I think about them, I shake my head in wonderment. They are totally out of touch with the 21st century American mind.

The very thought of one unelected judge with a stroke of a pen nullifying law is unconscionable to most Americans but this has become common against the Donald Trump administration blocking the executive function of the government at least 37 times. Before him it was 20 times against Barack Obama. When this happens it is called an injunction, most are delayed for a time and overturned by a higher court.  Consequently, Trump has had to ask for 20 emergency stays from the Supreme Court while these were resolved. No president has had to deal with such unconstitutional judicial overreach.

CHEYENNE – Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas released the following statement after the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston announced the Main Street Lending Program (MSLP) is fully operational.

The MSLP will support small and mid-sized businesses, and their employees, that were in good financial standing before the public health crisis by ensuring credit flows to businesses in need.  Keeping these  Main  Street  businesses solvent will help ensure a strong and widespread economic recovery as communities across the country work to reopen.