Lucas is the representative for Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 7, 2003. Lucas is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 63 years old.
He was previously the representative for Oklahoma’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1993 to 2002.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Lucas was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Lucas voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Rep. Frank Lucas [R-OK3]](/static/legislator-photos/400247-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Lucas.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Lucas is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Lucas has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 17, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Frank Lucas sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Lucas was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 210 (117th): Rural STEM Education Research Act
- H.R. 5374 (116th): Advanced Geothermal Research and Development Act of 2019
- H.R. 353 (115th): Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017
- H.R. 2642 (113th): Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
- H.R. 1930 (109th): To amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to reauthorize State mediation programs.
- H.R. 2912 (108th): To reaffirm the inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of government.
- H.R. 4259 (106th): American Buffalo Coin Commemorative Coin Act of 2000
Does 9 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Lucas sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Science, Technology, Communications (58%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Health (11%) International Affairs (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (11%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Lucas recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 161: Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology …
- H.R. 1018: Protect Farmers from the SEC Act
- H.R. 803: Pressure Regulatory Organizations To End Chinese Threats to Taiwan Act
- H.R. 290: Commercial Remote Sensing Amendment Act of 2023
- H.R. 9376 (117th): National Drone and Advanced Air Mobility Initiative Act
- H.R. 9063 (117th): Protect Farmers from the SEC Act
- H.R. 8337 (117th): Carbon Sequestration Collaboration Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From May 1994 to Mar 2023, Lucas missed 519 of 18,479 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is worse than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
