i'm a seniork, partner at a law firm that has offices in denver, colorado. i served on the federal energy regulatory commission and prior to that i served 12 years as a commissioner and chairman of the north dakota public service commission. recognize myr to former colleague, congressman cramer, a good friend of many years. my testimony centers on a white paper recently authored your it reflects -- authored. my feelings on order 1000 and where it may go from here. order 1000 was promulgated not long before i got on the commission, so i did not participate in that. but i did participate in many compliance filings that came forward in the wake of the order. however well-intentioned the order is, it is falling short of the lefty goals that it set. with the better part of a decade is a its adoption, now good time to engage in a meaningful assessment of the order. paradoxical results of the rule has been that major transmission projects many of us thought might come out of order 1000 actually came out of a pre-order 1000 world and since order 1000 was promulgated