[applause]
>> i'm rebecca hamilton, i'm a
member of the oklahoma house of
representatives.
i'm starting my 18th year in
that body, which means that i
have more seniority than anybody
else.
in either house.
now, i don't know if that means
that i, there's a sanity or
intelligence test that i failed
or what exactly --
[laughter]
but that's true.
and i had something unusual
happen when i was looking at the
program today.
it says about me, it says as a
public intellectual.
that, in all these years, that's
the first time anyone has ever
called me an intellectual.
[laughter]
it is, actually, unusual for me
to find something new that
somebody hasn't called me
before --
[laughter]
after 18 years in office, and
i'm very proud of this one.
[laughter]
i have on my hard drive on my
computer at home, i have a file
that i keep.
it's called the crazy people
file.
and how you get into the crazy
people file is you send me an