the painting in the archway beyond the centennial by carlos teo, different in style from all of the rest of the artwork in the capitol, but it has a lot of oklahoma symbolism in it. first of all, the big red figure in the middle represents the universal man or all oklahomans. they have two words that mean red man. there's the red man. lower left-hand corner, you have the state wild flower, indian blanket. above that purple area, a red bud tree, the state tree. the state bird, and by his other hand, an astronaut. there have been more astronauts go into space from oklahoma than any other state in the union. we come into the senate chamber. oklahoma's legislature meets the first monday of february, has to be finished by last friday of may. in session four months out of the year. we have 48 state senators elected for four years. the lieutenant governor is the president of the senate, but not active in that role, probably in 70 years now, so the president pro tem really is the leader. and a little bit of our history from 1907 to 2006, the democrats had the majority, so the pro tem was a democ