Rep. Frank Lucas [R-OK3]
U.S. Representative, Oklahoma’s 3^rd District

Track Frank Lucas

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Frank Lucas’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Oklahoma [map]
District:	3^rd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Jan 6, 1960 / 50 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 12-10-09 03 2:31:45 to 2:33:50 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Frank Lucas has represented Oklahoma’s 3^rd congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Frank Lucas:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	Oklahoma’s 3^rd	(was preceeded by Wes Watkins)
1993-2002	U.S. Representative	Oklahoma’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Glenn English)

Sponsorship Analysis

Lucas is a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Lucas is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Lucas tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Lucas’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Lucas, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Lucas and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Lucas.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Lucas's bills without Lucas returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Frank Lucas missed 376 (4%) of 10423 votes since May 17, 1994. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Lucas in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of American Bankers Assn. Frank Lucas’s net worth was between $320,011 and $1,704,994 in 2007, according to Lucas’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Lucas.

Committee Membership

Frank Lucas sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, House Committee on Agriculture

Member, House Committee on Financial Services

Member, House Committee on Science and Technology

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Frank Lucas has sponsored 34 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 26 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Lucas has co-sponsored 902 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Lucas and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Lucas’s most recently sponsored bills include...