it would be like the commerce committee would be on the icc. is a mixture of functions so they know what is going on. >> justices, i appreciate the opportunity to have you here today. i know how difficult your workload is, and to take time to come and visit with us about the financing of what we are doing here in this country is an important topic, and i am glad you are here to do with this. as a young attorney, is a great opportunity to have you here today. i had an opportunity for eight years to serve in the kansas legislature. we dealt with a similar issue of how to fund the growing pressures on our court system. we always dealt with the growing amount of caseloads and the pressure of having to add additional judgeships, and because of budget constraints, we were often unable to do so. i want to have discussion about the situation in our district court and courts of appeals. in kansas, visiting with my local judges, they are concerned about the backlog. i want to get your comment on the severity of those things and what our potential respons

we are expecting a report from the icc next wednesday on the fourth of may. it is the international criminal court that will come to a few about it. >> with my right hon. friend agree with me that over the last few weeks not only have the eyes of much of the world been

fta and icc they have the responsibility of developing codes and standards on appliances and electric infrastructure to facilitate their safe and effective use of the charging infrastructure. that's not all that we're doing. we're focusing our efforts on grid readiness and customer education. both of which i believe are critical as we move beyond early adopters to more widespread acceptance of electric vehicles and electricity as a viable transportation fuel. we're working with automakers, dealers and others on early notification programs. so we know when with and where the vehicles -- so we know when and where the vehicles are coming to our territories. so our overall distribution infrastructure is ready. so our transformers are properly sized and so that our call centers are educated so that we can communicate with our customers in realtime. we think that's create kale. -- critical. we believe all of this will help our members as they evaluate their systems, and they look at the impact on additional reliability need and the impact on low carrier improvement. in order to maintain the

agency consists of the parliamentary committee so it would be like the commerce committee would be on icca mixture of function so they know what's going on. >> thank you very much. mr. chote or? >> thank you, madam chairman. justices, appreciate the opportunity to have you here today, and i'm not just to bring some of the material how difficult your workload is. and to take time to come to feel to visit with us about line dancing of what we're doing here in this country is an important topic and i'm glad you're here to do it with us. i am a kansas university law grad and i want is a bug you're been there there before to give lectures. and so i appreciate that. and serving as a young attorney is a great opportunity to have you here today. i had an opportunity for eight years to serve in the kansas legislature and was the issues we dealt with there is a summit issue we're dealing with in the country which is how to fund the growing pressures on our court system. and we always dealt with a growing amount of caseloads, and the pressure of having to add additional judgeships. and many times be

important for us to be sure that british people of all sorts are protected because they are subject to the icc, americans of course aren't, there we are, that's an interesting conversation we can have later. >> can i just give an assurance, a personal assurance on that? because when it comes to the conflict and a secretary of state is asked to ally look at specific judgments, i took, as the government took from the outset, that we would set our assessment of acceptable civilian casualties as close to zero as was possible to be. i can give this government can give, this country can give an absolute assurance to people of libya and people of the region that at all times we have sought as far as humanly possible to minimize civilian casualties because it makes a difference to our moral position in conflict and it makes a difference to our difference in alliing white political alliance. >> i think that's an extremely helpful and very important statement. i'm grateful to you for making it. >> absolutely. and that's what we're trying to ensure. to pursue this question about the target a little furth

important for us to be sure that british people of all sorts are protected because they are subject to the icc, americans of course aren't, there we are, that's an interesting conversation we can have later. >> can i just give an assurance, a personal assurance on that? because when it comes to the conflict and a secretary of state is asked to ally look at specific judgments, i took, as the government took from the outset, that we would set our assessment of acceptable civilian casualties as close to zero as was possible to be. i can give this government can give, this country can give an absolute assurance to people of libya and people of the region that at all times we have sought as far as humanly possible to minimize civilian casualties because it makes a difference to our moral position in conflict and it makes a difference to our difference in alliing white political alliance. >> i think that's an extremely helpful and very important statement. i'm grateful to you for making it. >> absolutely. and that's what we're trying to ensure. to pursue this question about the target a little furth