The tax was criticized by the opposition as a tax grab, and voted down in the Senate on March 18, 2009.

In April 2009, some Labor party members said that they planned to resubmit the tax to the Senate.

The re-submitted legislation passed the Senate in August 2009.

until in early March 2009 congressional Democrats were moving to close down the program and remove children from their voucher-funded school places at the end of the 09 / 10 school year under the $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 which, as of March 7 had passed the House and was pending in the Senate.

This plan was thwarted for the time being on May 20, 2009, when the United States Senate voted to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

The Judiciary Committee and the US Senate Finance Committee issued a scathing report in 2007, which found that Aguirre had been illegally fired in reprisal for his pursuit of Mack and in 2009, the SEC was forced to re-open its case against Pequot.

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

Similar to other U. S. territories, the islands do not have representation in the U. S. Senate, but are represented in the U. S. House of Representatives by a delegate ( beginning January 2009 for the CNMI ) who may vote in committee but not on the House floor .< ref >

On 15 July 2009, Senator Jim Webb of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared that only the " United States has both the stature and the national power to confront the obvious imbalance of power that China brings " to situations such as the claims to the Spratly and Paracel islands.

The current Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere at the Department of Commerce and the agency's administrator is Jane Lubchenco, who was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U. S. Senate on March 19, 2009.

The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on 20 January 2009.

The current attorney general, Eric Holder, was confirmed to office by the Senate on February 2, 2009, and sworn into office on February 3, 2009.

She took office after being confirmed by the United States Senate on February 24, 2009.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services by the United States Senate on April 29, 2009.

He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 20, 2009.

In 2009, the Berlin Senate decided that Berlin's Gymnasium should no longer be allowed to handpick all of their students.

Following the June 28th, 2009 mid-term elections, half the Chamber of Deputies seats and one third of the seats in the Senate were subjected to the ballot box.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 6, 2009.

Shaun Donovan, a former New York City housing commissioner and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, is the current Secretary, having been confirmed by the United States Senate unanimously on January 22, 2009.

In a column assessing Caroline Kennedy's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, Maureen Dowd likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr .' s place in it as " heartbreaking.

* In its 26 August 2009 obituary for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the New York Times described the late Senator as a " Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life ".

* Broder, John M. Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies, The New York Times, 26 August 2009.

2009 the Forum returned to Brazil, where it took place in Belém.

In 2009 Brazil purchased 4 Scorpène submarines for US $ 9. 9 billion with a massive technology transfer agreement.

The Department of Defense of Brazil, in 2009 also asked the Brazilian Navy to develop a plan for the next 30 years.

In July 2009, the minister of defense, Nelson Jobim, said that Brazil will expend about 0. 7 % ( US $ 13 billion ) of the GDP per year to modernize the forces in addition to the 2. 6 % yearly defense budget.

BRIC ( Brazil, Russia, India and China ) leaders during the 2009 BRIC summit | 1st BRIC summit in 2009.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

Israel, delivered in 2009 its unmanned aerial vehicles and Brazil, supplied additional military vehicles and Super Tucano combat-aircraft.

The bridge was officially opened on September 14, 2009, enabling economic interests in northern Brazil to link by road to the port at Georgetown.

* 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Paraguay – Brazil relations have improved greatly after Brazilian President Lula's decision in 2009 to triple its payments to Paraguay for energy from a massive hydro-electric dam on their border, ending a long-running dispute.

Pepsi released this logo in U. S. in late 2008, and later it was released in 2009 in Canada ( the first country outside of the United States for Pepsi's new logo ), Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Dominican Republic, the Philippines and Australia.

The film was released in Brazil on August 21, 2009.

Argentina and Brazil are Uruguay's most important trading partners: imports from Argentina accounted for 20 % of the total in 2009.

Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world ; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries ( Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium ), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

* In terms of purchasing power parity in 2009, the ten largest economies were the United States ( U. S. $ 14. 26 trillion ), China ( U. S. $ 9. 10 trillion ), Japan ( U. S. $ 4. 14 trillion ), India ( U. S. $ 3. 75 trillion ), Germany ( U. S. $ 2. 98 trillion ), Russia ( U. S. $ 2. 69 trillion ), United Kingdom ( U. S. $ 2. 26 trillion ), France ( U. S. $ 2. 17 trillion ), Brazil ( U. S. $ 2. 02 trillion ), and Italy ( U. S. $ 1. 92 trillion ).

* February 2009: for the Year of France in Brazil, and as part of the Rio Carnival, the Moulin Rouge is produced on the mythical Copacabana beach.

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

Schumacher also raced at the SKUSA SuperNationals, an event taking place each year in Las Vegas, along with F1 drivers Sébastien Buemi and Nelson Piquet, Jr .. Felipe Massa also used karting in September 2009 to test his condition in Brazil, two months after his Hungarian Grand Prix freak accident during qualifying.

Portugal 58. 9 %, Brazil 6. 68 %, United States of America 4. 71 %, Japan 4. 49 % ( 2009 )

* Erika de Souza, Brazil – one-time All-Star ( 2009 )

13th annual São Paulo Gay Pride Parade, 2009, Brazil.

On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a R $ 2, 814 million ( US $ 1, 482. 6 million ; € 1, 038. 8 million ) investiment plan to up-grade Viracopos International Airport focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics in 2016 which will be held in Brazil, São Paulo ( 99 km away ) being one of the venue cities.

In 2009 the Barbados Defence Force contributed to USSOUTHCOM-maneuver Fuerzas Commando 2009 in Brazil.