Frank D. Lucas

Republican · U.S. House, Oklahoma District 3

Lucas was an original cosponsor of a May 2024 bill to bar federal funds from being used to withhold deliveries of U.S. weapons to the government of Israel. Nothing he has said about what the United States should send was located in his congressional newsroom, read back to 2008.

Frank Lucas is a Republican who has served in the House since a 1994 special election and has represented Oklahoma's 3rd District, a 32-county stretch of northern and western Oklahoma, since 2003. He chaired the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the 118th Congress and now chairs a task force of the Financial Services Committee. He faces Democrat Suzie Byrd on November 3, 2026.

The one act of his own found on this question is a bill. On May 14, 2024, after the Biden administration paused a delivery of weapons that was ready to go, his name appeared in the introduced-by list of the Israel Security Assistance Support Act. It would bar money appropriated to the Defense or State Departments from being used to withhold, halt, reverse or cancel the delivery of defense articles or services to the government of Israel, would pay no officer or employee who acted to support such a withholding, and would require anything already held back to be delivered within fifteen days. He issued no statement about it.

He has said very little in public about the subject at all. The fullest thing located from him since the October 2023 attacks is a post on X in the first week of October 2024, which the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a conservative Oklahoma policy institute, quoted as saying that the United States "must reaffirm our support" for Israel and "must not waver in supporting them". That is a statement of support rather than a statement about weapons or money, and the post's own address no longer opens. His older words are more specific and much older: in May 2014 he welcomed a defense bill that he said continued to build on the alliance with Israel by investing in its missile defense programs, and in August 2015 he argued against the Iran nuclear agreement on the ground that Iran's rhetoric toward Israel had not subsided.

Every item published in his congressional newsroom between September 2008 and July 2026 was read for this card. Nothing there since October 2023 addresses U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, and nothing at any date addresses U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians. His campaign site's issues page sets out seven subjects, none of them foreign policy. The votes shown on this card continued through that silence. His work on campus antisemitism, his 2025 cosponsorship of a bill creating a service medal for the Iran-Israel War, and everything else read for this card are on the research page. Ask Lucas directly and send us the reply: it goes on this page in his own words.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

Our research began with a search on 2026-08-21, whose results were treated as leads rather than as evidence, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless the entry says otherwise. Every item published in his congressional newsroom between September 15, 2008 and July 30, 2026 was read, along with his campaign site. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Frank Lucas is a Republican who has served in the House since a 1994 special election and has represented Oklahoma's 3rd District since 2003; he is the Republican nominee in OK-03 in 2026. This card replaces an older summary of his record, and everything below was checked again at the source. His recorded votes and the funding total appear as badges on this card and are not restated here.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

Earlier record

Not on the card, and why

Sources read for this card (address; opened or could not open; date read)

Also in this race: Suzie Byrd (Democrat) · All Oklahoma candidates.

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