Rep. Frank Lucas to Oklahoma town hall: Health care bill 'at best a work in progress'

About 100 people turned out for a town hall meeting with U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas.

Lucas spoke to the crowd for about 20 minutes about his opposition to many of the key Democrat-backed issues in Congress, before taking questions from the crowd. The town hall meeting was one of four meetings Lucas, R-Cheyenne, held across his district today.

"Like your neighbors, you're frightened and furious about what's going on in Congress," Lucas said.

Like other lawmakers across the country, Lucas is taking time to meet with constituents during Congress' August recess. Lucas said the numbers of people attending his town hall meetings have swelled as more and more people want straight answers about government spending programs and plans to reform the nation's health care system.

Lucas listed several measures passed by the Democrat-led Congress, noting that he didn't support a massive spending bill to bail out banks or a measure that would cap emissions and charge companies that exceeded those limits.