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Frank Lucas: “This was clumsy, sloppy, it was awkward and it has cost…”

Featuring: Frank Lucas, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, District 3

Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.)

Published November 12, 2021 | Video Starts at 12:27

Your thoughts about where the committee looks at this, where you're headed in the future so that this is not repeated again. First off, I agree with the medical community in Oklahoma. This was clumsy, sloppy, it was awkward and it has cost lives there. When we ultimately get to the bottom of all of this, I think we're going to find that bad decisions were made based on the pressing complications of the day. (12:27–12:34)

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Asserts that the handling of the pandemic was poorly managed and resulted in loss of life.

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“When I came to Congress the Democrats had controlled the United States House for 40 straight years.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 02:38-02:45
“For every 10 people who are hospitalized with COVID-19, every 10, eight of them were never vaccinated.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 09:54-10:06
“25% of the ICU beds in this country are occupied by COVID-19 patients.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 10:19-10:27
“Over 10,000 of our fellow citizens have died from COVID-19 in this pandemic [in Oklahoma].”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 10:34-10:38
“This gubernatorial race out in Virginia is a nip and tuck battle between where we go next.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 01:54-02:03
“Joe Biden carried [Virginia] by 10 points over Donald Trump last year in the presidential contest.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 02:16-02:24
“My district had been held by a Democrat for 19 straight years.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 02:44-02:49
“Bernie Sanders wrote the initial draft [of the Democrats' giant package] in the Senate Budget Committee.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 03:19-03:24
“The House realized they couldn't come up with $6 trillion in spending.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 03:30-03:36
“They cut it back to 3.5 trillion and, and now over the course of weeks and a couple of months it's shrunk perhaps to one and a half…”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 03:37-03:46
“We have jurisdictions over the National Science Foundation.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 04:34-04:38
“We're also the National Weather Service.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 04:51-04:53
“We're also the Department of Defense civilian energy programs.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 05:08-05:14
“Last but not least were NASA, the space programs.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 05:22-05:28
“We have to go back to the moon. We have to go on to Mars.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 05:44-05:49
“I'm not in favor of mandatory vaccines.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 06:57-07:00
“President Trump stepped up and made the initial push to spend the resources to develop a vaccine.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 08:46-08:55
“We started down the process of maybe as many as 20 or 25 different vaccines.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 08:54-08:59
“We wound up with three critical, very effective vaccines.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 08:58-09:03
“He [President Trump] was the one who was supportive of making the vaccine free and available to everyone in the United States.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 09:02-09:18
“58% of eligible Oklahomans are now fully vaccinated.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 09:43-09:49
“We're past 600,000 Americans who've died, and 500,000 of those died before we had a vaccine.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 10:38-10:45
“We were initially told no need to wear a mask. Then we were told everybody must wear masks.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 12:42-12:48
“There wasn't sufficient mask available at the beginning of the pandemic.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 12:53-12:58
“There was so much confusion, so much cross reference, so much inconsistency [regarding COVID-19 information].”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 14:22-14:28
“We can't go through the kind of environment we've gone through in the last year and a half.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 14:43-14:50
“It's been dangerous for our national health, but it's also created suspicion and lowered the quality of the national dialogue.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 14:51-15:02
“We were lucky last year in a sense because in the trauma of COVID 19, the amount of hand sanitizer that we used and the face mask and better…”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 16:13-16:30
“We're so jammed up at the ports. We have labor issues, we've all got all manner of problems.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 16:36-16:42
“For months last year, in 2020, literally the economy in the country shut down.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 16:50-16:56
“The Democrats cannot agree among themselves. They have a bare majority.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 19:05-19:10
“Build back won't be $6 trillion. It might be a trillion, it might be 900 billion.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 19:27-19:34
“There will be an infrastructure package, roads, bridges and highways.”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 19:33-19:38
“People pay user fees when they buy gasoline, diesel, airport tickets to have better roads, to have better bridges, to have better harbors…”
Mitchell Talks Conversation: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) | Uploaded November 12, 2021 | 19:47-19:57