Spencer Abraham — American Politician born on June 12, 1952,

Edward Spencer Abraham is a former Republican United States Senator from Michigan. He served as the tenth United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush. Abraham is one of the founders of the Federalist Society and a co-founder of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. To date, Abraham is the last Republican to serve as a U.S. Senator from Michigan. Spencer Abraham is a defendant as a board Member of Occidental Petroleum Board of Directors violating their fiduciary duties in C. A.No. 9343-VCL Milton Pfeiffer, et on behalf of Occidental Petroleum, Plaintiffs V. Spencer Abraham, et al. defendants, etc... (wikipedia)

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.
Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.