Due to increasing growth rates and tax revenues, the Senate of Berlin calculates an increasing budget surplus in 2008.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

The state's senior ( Class II ) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry.

On 21 November 2008, the US Senate confirmed the appointment of Gene Cretz to be the first US ambassador to Libya since 1972.

In September 2008, Barnaby Joyce replaced CLP Senator and Nationals deputy leader Nigel Scullion as leader of the Nationals in the Senate, and stated that his party in the upper house would no longer necessarily vote with their Liberal counterparts in the upper house, which opened up another possible avenue for the Rudd Labor Government to get legislation through.

Rosselló's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Senate President McClintock, split the New Progressive Party, a split that continued as Rosselló initiated a fourth bid for the governorship against Resident Commissioner Fortuño in an internal primary that was held March 9, 2008, and which he lost.

* February 14 – Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines since 2008.

The state's senior ( Class I ) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry.

For example, the Independent Party of Oregon cross-nominated five major party candidates, winning races for the U. S. Senate, Oregon State Treasurer, and the Oregon House of Representatives in 2008.

Cloture Voting, United States Senate, 1947 to 2008.

In an interview on CNN's The Situation Room on April 7, 2008, Ventura hinted that he was considering entering the race for the United States Senate seat then held by Norm Coleman, his Republican opponent in the 1998 Gubernatorial race.

On 27 July 2008, the tax reform was put down by a votation at the Senate, which came to be decided by the vote of Vice President Julio Cobos, effectively breaking the governmental coalition Plural Consensus.

A bill requesting President George W. Bush to pardon Johnson in 2008, passed the House, but failed to pass in the Senate.

In December 2008 the Mexican Senate named the 2nd of October starting in 2009 as a National Day of Mourning ; the initiative had already passed the Deputies ' Chamber of Congress.

Barack Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois elected as President in November 2008, also visited Greenville while campaigning for his Senate seat in 2004, in a visit hosted by the Bond County Democrats.

* Troyce Guice ( 1932 – 2008 ), a member of the Louisiana Levee Board and the Mississippi River Bridge Commission, twice a candidate for the U. S. Senate.

* Francis C. Thompson served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1975 until 2008 and now in the Louisiana State Senate.

In recent years, Livingston Parish has been represented in the Louisiana State Senate by Republicans, Heulette Fontenot ( 2000 – 2008 ) and Dale M. Erdey ( since 2008 ).

On 22 December 2008, The New York Times published a letter attributed to Delanoë criticizing Caroline Kennedy's candidacy for the United States Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Republican Jim Risch, elected in 2008.

Clinton's wife, Hillary, visited Hazard on November 2, 2008 at a political rally for Democratic U. S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford.

* Ronnie Johns is an insurance agent in Sulphur who is an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate and a member of the state House from 1996 to 2008.

Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., the current president of the Maryland Senate ( as of April 2008 ), lives in Chesapeake Beach.

In 2008, Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team visited the island to carry out an investigation into its early Christian history.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.

The investigation portion of the response plan was completed with the release of the final report on 7 World Trade Center on November 20, 2008.

A New York Times investigation in 2008 showed that more than 90 % of Long Island Rail Road employees who had retired since 2000 were receiving disability payments from the federal Railroad Retirement Board, collectively totalling more than $ 250, 000, 000 over 8 years.

She was featured in a UFO documentary that Williams did for BBC Radio 4 in April and took part in a field investigation he did in Trout Lake, Washington in August 2008.

In March 2008 Eastwood and Shriver's non-reappointment to the commission on the expiry of their terms prompted the Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ) to request a legislative investigation into the decision.

During the summer of 2008, The Washington Post ran a 13-part series billed, in part, as " a tale of the tabloid and mainstream press pack journalism that helped derail the investigation.

A US Coast Guard investigation released in 2008 " suggest McDermott was lost at sea ," although some have claimed contact with McDermott since his disappearance.

While the diamond had disappeared for several decades, there were questions whether this recovered diamond in Britain was exactly the same one as had belonged to the French king, but subsequent scientific investigation in 2008 confirmed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the Hope Diamond and that owned by the French king were, in fact, the same gemstone in the sense that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the same material as the French Blue.

In January 2011 the German magazine Focus cited German interrogation records in connection with another investigation from 2008 as showing that the assassination had been carried out by an operative of the Yugoslavian UDBA who now lives in Zagreb, Croatia.

In June 2008, a CNN investigation found that FEMA gave away about $ 85 million in household goods meant for Hurricane Katrina victims to 16 other states.

In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death.

In June 2008, the United States Department of Justice opened an investigation into the city's election system.

As of 5 September 2008, Patria is under investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation on its vehicle project in Slovenia and howitzer project in Egypt.

The company's former CEO Jorma Wiitakorpi resigned on August 18, 2008, when the investigation was still ongoing.

The case is ongoing and currently ( as of 5 September 2008 ) the criminal investigation is underway.

On 19 June 2008, the Melbourne Museum released the findings of the forensic investigation conducted by Dr. Ivan Kempson, University of South Australia, and Dermot Henry, Natural Science Collections at Museum Victoria.

In March 2008, a pyrotechnic rocket fell off its cable and landed in the crowd at WWE Wrestlemania 24 leading to a big investigation.

In The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen ( 2008 ), folk and fairy tale researcher Maria Tatar offers a scholarly investigation and analysis of the story, drawing on Robbins's political and sociological analysis of the tale.

On September 1, 2008, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva suspended the leadership of the organization, including its director Paulo Lacerda, and ordered an investigation into allegations that appeared in Veja magazine of phone tapping of senior figures including the heads of both the Senate and the Supreme Court.

In 2008, Koch Industries discovered that the French affiliate Koch-Glitsch had violated bribery laws allegedly securing contracts in Algeria, Egypt, India, Morocco, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia after an investigation by Ethics Compliance officer, Egorova-Farines.

In 2008 the Commission withdrew its investigation after Apple agreed to end the price discrimination.

A common example was displayed in the news in October 2008, when the ASPCA was in charge of an investigation involving the slaughtering of a beagle that lived in the Bronx.

In August 2008, after a three-year investigation by California's Attorney General Citibank was ordered to repay the $ 14 million ( close to $ 18 million including interest and penalties ) that was removed from 53, 000 customers accounts over an 11-year period from 1992 to 2003.