The United States House Appropriations Select Intelligence Oversight Panel was a select subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations. Established on January 9, 2007 pursuant to H.Res. 35, as part of efforts to implement the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the "9/11 Commission," it was eliminated in the rules adopted by the 112th Congress.
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—D.H. (David Herbert)
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—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)
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To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
Like a pistil after the petals go.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)