U.S. House of Representatives (1994-present)
Tenure On April 7, 2014, Lucas introduced the
Customer Protection and End User Relief Act (H.R. 4413; 113th Congress) into the House. The bill would
reauthorize the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission through 2018 and amend some provisions of the
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. On January 6, 2021, in the aftermath of the
attack on the United States Capitol, Lucas joined 146 other Congressional Republicans in voting against
the certification of the
2020 presidential election. In 2022, Lucas was one of 39 Republicans to vote for the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, an antitrust package that would crack down on corporations for anti-competitive behavior. Lucas has chaired the
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee since 2023.
Chair of the Science, Space and Technology committee After Republicans won the House majority in the 2022 elections, Lucas became chair of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, which has jurisdiction over non-defense federal scientific research and development, including NASA, NSF, NIST, and the OSTP. Lucas laid out an ambitious agenda for the committee: independence for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal program to develop unmanned drones, advances in fusion energy, and research money for institutions other than those on the coasts. )
Committee assignments For the
119th Congress: •
Committee on Agriculture •
Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development •
Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology (Chairman) •
Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture •
Committee on Financial Services •
Subcommittee on Capital Markets •
Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Caucus memberships •
Congressional Blockchain Caucus •
Congressional Taiwan Caucus •
Congressional Western Caucus •
United States–China Working Group Political campaigns In 1994, 6th district Congressman
Glenn English stepped down to become a
lobbyist for
rural electric cooperatives. Lucas won the Republican nomination for the special election on May 10. He faced Dan Webber,
press secretary to
U.S. Senator David L. Boren. The 6th was already by far the largest in the state, stretching from the Panhandle to the town of
Spencer, in the far northeastern
Oklahoma City metropolitan area. But the state legislature had redrawn it so that it included many poor Oklahoma City neighborhoods that had never voted Republican. Lucas scored a major upset, winning by eight percentage points and carrying 18 of the district's 24 counties. Some pundits have seen his victory as an early sign of the
Republican Revolution that November, when Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years. Lucas won a full term in November with 70% of the vote. He has been reelected seven times, never with less than 59% of the vote, and was unopposed in 2002 and 2004. Lucas's district was renumbered as the 3rd after Oklahoma lost a district in the 2000 Census. His already vast district was made even larger. He lost most of his share of Oklahoma City, which was home to 60% of the district's population. He once represented much of the downtown area, including the site of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. He still represented the part of the city in
Canadian County. To make up for this large population loss, the 3rd was pushed farther east, picking up several of Tulsa's western suburbs (including a small portion of Tulsa itself) and some rural areas. As a result, his district now includes 48.5% of the state's landmass, and is nearly as large as the state's other four districts combined. He regained a share of Oklahoma County in the 2020 redistricting.
2014 Republican primary In the 2014 Republican primary, Lucas won 83% of the vote. 12% went to Robert Hubbard and 5% to Timothy Ray Murray.
2024 Republican primary Lucas only drew Republican primary challengers in 2024. He defeated Robyn Lynn Carder and Darren Hamilton in the June primary with 74% of the vote.
2026 election Lucas is facing a challenge from
Wade Burleson in the 2026 Republican primary. ==Electoral history==