[CAPTURE PORTAL] 119TH CONGRESS

Legislative Integrity Monitor

Goblin House Intelligence

Frank Lucas

Republican · Representative, OK ·3 ·Since 2025-01-03

Score Components

43 LOW

Connection Density 20%

22 → 4

Donor Influence 15%

70 → 11

Silence Risk 25%

48 → 12

Contradiction Risk 25%

40 → 10

Intelligence Volume 15%

34 → 5

Constituency Deviation 0%

11 → 0

Voting Misalignment 0%

0 → 0

% = weight in composite score · Raw component 0–100 × weight = weighted contribution (→) · Sum of contributions = overall score. Hover a row for details.

[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: 64.5%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty rate: 17.9%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Population: 797,981

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median household income: $59,242

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: State Question 833: Public Infrastructure Districts (2024) — failed, margin Overwhelmingly rejected

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: State Question 834: Citizenship Requirement for Voting (2024) — passed, margin Approximately 80% in favor

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 522 (share 0.08)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 211 (share 0.13)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 111 (share 0.18)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: USDA Grazinglands Research Laboratory / Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center (150 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Devon Energy (1600 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Oklahoma State University (8500 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] District summary: Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District is the state's largest by area, spanning over 34,000 square miles across western and central Oklahoma, including the Panhandle region bordering New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Texas. The district is predominantly rural with an agricultural and energy-based economy. Its population of approximately 798,000 is 65.8% White (non-Hispanic) and 21.2% Hispanic. The median household income of $59,242 sits well above the national median but the poverty rate of 17.9% is elevated. The district is solidly Republican — Lucas won his 2024 primary with over 73% and faced no Democratic opponent in the general election. Key economic drivers include crop production, cattle ranching, oil and gas extraction, and agricultural research anchored by USDA facilities like the Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center at Fort Reno.

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Voted nay on H.R. 2377 (Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2022) on 2022-06-09: Lucas voted with the overwhelming majority of House Republicans (201 of 206 voting GOP members) against creating a federal 'red flag' mechanism for firearm removal. The vote aligned with both his rural Oklahoma district's gun culture and the Republican party position, but his nay vote also aligned with the National Beer…

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primary · 2022-06-09 ✓ Verified

Voted yea on H.R. 2811 (Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023) on 2023-04-26: Lucas voted with the full Republican conference (217-0) to raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion while coupling it with $4.8 trillion in spending cuts and energy tax credit repeals. The vote aligned with both party leadership and donor sectors (oil and gas tax credit protections were not repealed; Devon Energy is Lucas's second-largest career…

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primary · 2023-04-26 ✓ Verified

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Voted yea on H.R. 2642 (Agricultural Act of 2014 (Farm Bill Conference Report)) on 2014-01-29: As House Agriculture Committee Chairman, Lucas shepherded the $96-billion-per-year farm bill to passage. Conservative groups including Club for Growth and Heritage Action opposed the bill's spending levels and threatened to use the vote against Republicans in primaries. Lucas's vote aligned with his district's dominant agricultural industry (Crop Production & Basic Processing is the top employer sector in OK-03) but crossed pressure from national conservative groups that had already targeted Lucas as a 'RINO' for his 68% Club for Growth lifetime rating.

primary · 2014-01-29 ✓ Verified

Voted yea on H.R. 550 (Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021) on 2021-11-30: Lucas was one of only 80 House Republicans (38% of the GOP conference) to vote for this bill, which authorizes $400 million in grants to modernize state immunization data systems. The Republican majority voted 130-80 against the measure. Lucas joined every Democrat in support, defecting from the majority of his party on a…

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primary · 2021-11-30 ✓ Verified

[disclosure] Lucas in 2024-2025 submitted legislation seeking $16.6 million in earmarks to fund climate research at Fort Reno, part of a pilot project that could total $66.6 million, and secured a farm bill provision to block the transfer of Fort Reno land to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes while expanding the USDA climate research facility there.

primary · 2025-10-16 ✓ Verified

[statement] Lucas in 2009 denounced the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade climate bill as a 'national energy tax' that 'will do more harm to production agriculture, American industry and our standard of living than it will do any good for the environment,' and voted against the bill.

primary · 2009-06-12 ✓ Verified

The Office of Congressional Ethics unanimously dismissed a complaint against Lucas in 2010 that had investigated his fundraising around the time of the House financial reform vote; Lucas stated the probe damaged his reputation.

secondary · 2010-09-01 ✓ Verified

House Committee on Space and Aeronautics committee_leadership Frank Lucas is a known entity in the database who has served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (which oversees Space…

Revenue Based Finance Coalition, Inc. PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00869461/

Scitech PAC donor $5,800 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00859017/

Garverusa PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00806604/

American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00797670/

Raptor PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00749481/

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Furthering Agriculture For Rural Mississippians Fund PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (3 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00730903/

National Pecan Federation Inc. PAC (Pecan PAC) donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00682617/

In The Arena PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00623512/

Plains Cotton Growers Inc. PAC donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00599084/

Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans (Emmer PAC) donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00592089/

Ally Financial Inc. Advocacy Political Action Committee donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (4 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00579540/

Blue Origin LLC PAC donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00557793/

One Gas Inc PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (3 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00554444/

Zoetis Good Government Fund donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00541177/

Innovation PAC donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00540187/

Phillips 66 PAC donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (5 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00513549/

Crop Insurance Professionals Association PAC-Cipa PAC donor $5,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00503680/

U.S. Peanut PAC donor $10,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00502807/

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation PAC - Dtcc PAC donor $6,000 to Frank D. Lucas's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (4 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00497917/

Bill	Vote	Date	Alignment
An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood…	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
Ratepayer Protection Act	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
Water Resources Development Act	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
Retire through Ownership Act	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
PROOF Act	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United…	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
National Fraud Enforcement Division Act	Yea	2026-09-16	unknown
GUARD Act	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers…	Nay	2026-09-15	unknown
Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Providing for consideration of the bills H.R. 9576 and H.R. 10326, providing…	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Providing for consideration of the bills H.R. 9576 and H.R. 10326, providing…	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in…	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United…	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Whistleblower Protection Act	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes…	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act	Yea	2026-09-15	unknown
Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act	Yea	2026-09-14	unknown
National Wildlife Refuge System Invasive Species Strike Team Act	Yea	2026-09-14	unknown
Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act	Yea	2026-09-03	unknown
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require…	Yea	2026-09-02	unknown
Protecting Domestic Mining Act	Yea	2026-09-02	unknown
In the matter of allegations relating to Representative Chuck Edwards	Yea	2026-09-01	unknown
Providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 1501, H.R. 9436, and H.R…	Yea	2026-09-01	unknown
To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period…	Nay	2026-09-01	unknown
Providing for the condemnation and denouncement of socialism in all its forms…	Yea	2026-09-01	unknown
Providing for consideration of the bills (H.R. 1501, H.R. 9436, and H.R…	Yea	2026-09-01	unknown
AGOA Extension Act	Yea	2026-09-01	unknown
To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period…	Yea	2026-09-01	unknown
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act	Yea	2026-08-31	unknown

Last contradiction analysis: Never

position_evolution 60/100

Platform: "Lucas in 2009 denounced the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade climate bill as a 'national energy tax' that 'will do more harm to production agriculture, American industry and our standard of living than it will do any good…

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Lucas in 2009 denounced the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade climate bill as a 'national energy tax' that 'will do more harm to production agriculture, American industry and our standard of living than it will do any good for the environment,' and voted against the bill.

Vote: on "Lucas in 2024-2025 submitted legislation seeking $16.6 million in earmarks to fund climate…"

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Lucas opposed climate regulation (cap-and-trade) in 2009 as harmful to agriculture, but by 2024-2025 championed a multi-million-dollar federal climate research hub at Fort Reno. His stated framework — opposing regulation while supporting research and innovation — represents an evolution from blanket opposition to targeted federal climate spending, though critics note the spending draws from the same federal appropriations process he once sought to limit via earmark moratoriums.

Last silence detection: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:59:44 GMT (via scheduled run)

law & lobbying firms

American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: law & lobbying firms

colleagues' leadership pacs

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Raptor PAC, Road To Freedom Campaign Committee, Leadership And Accountability Are National Keys PAC - Lank PAC, Innovation PAC, Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans (Emmer PAC), In The Arena PAC, Conservative Opportunity Leadership & Enterprise PAC - Colepac (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026), $10,000 (2026)) — interest area: colleagues' leadership pacs

other / unclassified

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American Bakers Association American Bakers PAC, Croplife America Political Action Committee, National Pecan Federation Inc. PAC (Pecan PAC), Garverusa PAC, Scitech PAC, Revenue Based Finance Coalition, Inc. PAC, National Sorghum Producers PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $6,500 (2026), $10,000 (2026), $5,000 (2024), $5,800 (2024), $5,000 (2026), $5,000 (2026)) — interest area: other / unclassified

other candidates' committees

Huck PAC (amounts: $5,000 (2024)) — interest area: other candidates' committees

corporate pacs, industry unlisted

Zurich Holding Company Of America Inc. Committee For Good Government (Z-PAC, Zurich PAC), Seaboard Corporation Political Action Committee, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation PAC - Dtcc PAC, Zoetis Good Government Fund (amounts: $5,000 (2026), $10,000…

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National Beer Wholesalers Association PAC (Nbwa PAC) Alcohol & tobacco $5,000 (2026)

Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. PAC Alcohol & tobacco $5,000 (2024)

Revenue Based Finance Coalition, Inc. PAC Other / unclassified $5,000 (2026)

Scitech PAC Other / unclassified $5,800 (2024)

Garverusa PAC Other / unclassified $5,000 (2024)

American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC Law & lobbying firms $5,000 (2026)

Raptor PAC Colleagues' leadership PACs $5,000 (2026)

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Furthering Agriculture For Rural Mississippians Fund PAC Agriculture & food $5,000 (2024)

National Pecan Federation Inc. PAC (Pecan PAC) Other / unclassified $10,000 (2026)

In The Arena PAC Colleagues' leadership PACs $5,000 (2026)

Plains Cotton Growers Inc. PAC Agriculture & food $10,000 (2026)

Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans (Emmer PAC) Colleagues' leadership PACs $5,000 (2026)

Ally Financial Inc. Advocacy Political Action Committee Finance & banking $5,000 (2024)

Blue Origin LLC PAC Defense & aerospace $10,000 (2024)

One Gas Inc PAC Oil, gas & mining $5,000 (2024)

Topic	Priority	Alignment	Deviation
Rural Healthcare Access	85	65	30
Environmental Regulation and Conservation	70	60	25
Energy and Oil/Gas Regulation	90	80	15
Education and Workforce Development	68	75	10
Immigration and Border Security	80	75	10
Agriculture and Farm Policy	95	85	10
Infrastructure and Water Resources	75	80	10
Judicial and Constitutional Issues	55	85	5
Tax Policy and Economic Growth	78	85	5
Government Accountability and Fraud Prevention	65	80	5
Socialism and Government Role	60	90	5
Mining and Domestic Resource Development	58	85	5

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No committee memberships recorded

Scoring Methodology

The Capture Risk Score is a composite 0–100 index measuring potential regulatory capture of elected officials. It is computed from seven weighted components:

Component	Weight	Signal
Contradiction Risk	30%	Stated positions contradicted by the record (recent findings boosted)
Donor Influence	20%	Distinct documented donors (FEC Schedule A PACs); inferred donors do not count
Connection Density	20%	Mapped relationships to lobbyists, contractors, interest groups; donor links excluded
Silence Risk	15%	Topics where donors have interests but the official is silent
Intelligence Volume	15%	Documented facts from verified sources
Constituency Deviation	0%	Shown, not weighted — a model estimate, not a record
Voting Misalignment	0%	Shown, not weighted — needs platform commitments almost nobody has; the roll-call record on /votes is the vote signal

Each component is the member's standing among all scored members of Congress, and the weighted sum is the overall score. Tiers are ranks: Critical is the top 5%, High the next 10%, Elevated the next 20%, Moderate the next 30%, and Low the rest.

Officials without at least 2 documented facts, 1 contradiction analysis, 1 voting record, or 1 constituency baseline are marked Insufficient Evidence and excluded from numeric ranking.

Contradiction findings from the last 180 days receive a recency boost. High-severity contradictions (score ≥ 70) receive additional weight.

Full methodology: /congress/methodology

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Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

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