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Frank Lucas: “We were initially told no need to wear a mask. Then we were…”

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 12:42

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. You remember We were initially told no need to wear a mask. Then we were told everybody must wear masks. That was an example, I suspect, Scott, when we get down to the bottom line is that there wasn't sufficient mask available at the beginning of the pandemic. (12:42–12:48)

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Asserts that there were conflicting messages about mask-wearing during the pandemic.

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“When I came to Congress the Democrats had controlled the United States House for 40 straight years.”
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“For every 10 people who are hospitalized with COVID-19, every 10, eight of them were never vaccinated.”
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“25% of the ICU beds in this country are occupied by COVID-19 patients.”
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“Over 10,000 of our fellow citizens have died from COVID-19 in this pandemic [in Oklahoma].”
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“This gubernatorial race out in Virginia is a nip and tuck battle between where we go next.”
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“Joe Biden carried [Virginia] by 10 points over Donald Trump last year in the presidential contest.”
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“My district had been held by a Democrat for 19 straight years.”
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“Bernie Sanders wrote the initial draft [of the Democrats' giant package] in the Senate Budget Committee.”
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“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…”
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“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.”
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“We're also the Department of Defense civilian energy programs.”
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“Last but not least were NASA, the space programs.”
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“We have to go back to the moon. We have to go on to Mars.”
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“I'm not in favor of mandatory vaccines.”
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“President Trump stepped up and made the initial push to spend the resources to develop a vaccine.”
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“We started down the process of maybe as many as 20 or 25 different vaccines.”
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“We wound up with three critical, very effective vaccines.”
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“He [President Trump] was the one who was supportive of making the vaccine free and available to everyone in the United States.”
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“58% of eligible Oklahomans are now fully vaccinated.”
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“We're past 600,000 Americans who've died, and 500,000 of those died before we had a vaccine.”
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“This was clumsy, sloppy, it was awkward and it has cost lives there.”
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“There wasn't sufficient mask available at the beginning of the pandemic.”
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“There was so much confusion, so much cross reference, so much inconsistency [regarding COVID-19 information].”
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“We can't go through the kind of environment we've gone through in the last year and a half.”
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“It's been dangerous for our national health, but it's also created suspicion and lowered the quality of the national dialogue.”
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“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…”
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“We're so jammed up at the ports. We have labor issues, we've all got all manner of problems.”
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“For months last year, in 2020, literally the economy in the country shut down.”
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“The Democrats cannot agree among themselves. They have a bare majority.”
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“Build back won't be $6 trillion. It might be a trillion, it might be 900 billion.”
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“There will be an infrastructure package, roads, bridges and highways.”
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“People pay user fees when they buy gasoline, diesel, airport tickets to have better roads, to have better bridges, to have better harbors…”
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