Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Lucas has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Lucas is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Lucas for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Frank Lucas sits on the following committees:
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Vice Chairman,
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on Research and Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on Space
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House Committee on Agriculture
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
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House Committee on Financial Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
- Member, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Lucas sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Agriculture and Food (67%) Finance and Financial Sector (33%)
Recent Bills
Some of Lucas’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 2626: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit Indian tribal governments ...
- H.R. 1601: State Regulatory Representation Clarification Act of 2015
- H.R. 1561: Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2015
- H.R. 1029: EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015
- H.R. 5749 (113th): State Regulatory Representation Clarification Act of 2014
- H.R. 4413 (113th): Customer Protection and End User Relief Act
- H.R. 3695 (113th): To provide a temporary extension of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act ...
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Voting Record
From May 1994 to Sep 2016, Lucas missed 430 of 15,108 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills