Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon ; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 ; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

392 extending the state quarter program one year to 2009, to include the District of Columbia and the five U. S. territories large enough to merit non-voting Congressional representatives: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Palmer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

The city is located in Alabama's Second Congressional District ; its current Representative ( as of 2009 ) is Bobby Bright ( D ).

Per a 2009 Congressional mandate the National Park Service is studying whether to designate the route a National Historic Trail.

Two days after his 90th birthday, Brooke was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal on October 28, 2009.

In September 2009, the GPO produced the Congressional Record on 100 percent recycled paper for the first time.

In May 2009, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, wrote a report for the Manhattan Institute on bipartisan health care reform based on Forging a New Plan For Health Care: Principles and Priorities for Sustainable Reform.

* Heritage Time Capsule's Congressional Time Capsule 2009

In April 2009, U. S. Representative Spencer Bachus claimed that 17 of his Congressional colleagues were socialists, but would only name one, Bernie Sanders, who has been openly describing himself as a democratic socialist for years.

In 2009, she was honored with a Congressional Leadership Award by the National Congress of American Indians.

In the 2009 elections, it retained 11 Congressional and 5 Senate seats.

In 2009 and 2010 Davis voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to do so.

On October 14, 2009, Franks joined with three fellow Representatives in calling for the investigation of CAIR ( the Council on American-Islamic Relations ) over allegations of trying to plant " spies ," based on a CAIR memo indicating that they " will develop national initiatives such as Lobby Day, and placing Muslim interns in Congressional offices.

Stearns, Co-Chair of the Congressional Air Force Caucus, led a delegation to Afghanistan in December of 2009.

During the 2009 Congressional recess, Baird held 5 town halls and 6 " tele-town halls " focused on health care.

Ronald E. " Ron " Lewis ( born September 14, 1946 ), an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1994 – 2009, representing the 2nd Congressional District of Kentucky.

*" The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA-DR )" 2009 Congressional Research Service Report

WASPs were granted veteran status in 1977, and given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School faculty member and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U. S. banking bailout during the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis, received her B. S.

On July 3 and 4, 2009, Johns was a featured speaker at Independence Day Tea Party events in Dallas, Summit, New Jersey, and Washington, D. C. On August 22, 2009, he was the headline speaker at the Congressional Recess rally against Democrat-sponsored health care legislation, held outside the offices of the legislation's primary sponsor, Henry Waxman, in Los Angeles.

" Collins is profiled in Congressional Quarterly's Encyclopedia of the First Amendment ( 2009 ), vol.

* The National Parks: America's Best Idea ( 2009 ) ( PBS ) ( Voice )

The city of Portland, Maine, known for its numerous nationally renowned restaurants, was ranked as Bon Appétit magazine's " America's Foodiest Small Town " in 2009.

* Greene, Julie, The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal ( New York: Penguin Press, 2009 )

The years 2009 to 2011 have seen the fall of America's veteran soaps.

At the 2009 G-20 London summit, U. S. President Barack Obama called South Korea " one of America's closest allies and greatest friends.

The 2009 U. S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs puts Albers in the top 30 % of AACSB accredited schools and one of the top 20 private business schools in the U. S. Albers's part-time MBA program has been recognized as one of the top 50 in the nation, according to the latest issue of U. S. News & World Reports “ America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 .” The Executive Leadership Program was ranked by CRO Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine among the top 10 executive training programs in corporate responsibility.

* October 3 – Waldo McBurney, America's oldest worker ( d. 2009 )

* On August 20, 2009 the Golden Gate Yacht Club announced that he had been retained in their ongoing dispute with Société Nautique de Genève regarding the 33rd America's Cup.

* 2009: Director Michael Mann's film Public Enemies is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.

* Gorn, Elliott J. Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One ( New York, OUP USA, 2009 ).

* 2009: In 2009, Corvallis High School won $ 20, 000 in sustainability contest " America's Most Eco-Friendly School ".< ref > CHS wins $ 20, 000 in sustainability contest.

CNNMoney. com named Columbia as one of America's 25 best places to retire, and U. S. News & World Report ranked the city sixth on its 2009 America's Best Affordable Places to Retire list.

They finished with a winning record every year from 1992 – 93 to 2009 – 10, tied with the Detroit Red Wings as the longest such streak of any team in America's four major sports.

In 2009 " America's Best Colleges " ranked Yeshiva University as the 50th best national university rising from the 2008 rank of 52nd.

In 2009, Forbes rated it 75th of America's Best Colleges.

Completed in 2009, Stackpole Books published Lincoln Highway Companion: A Guide to America's First Coast-to-Coast Road, authored by Brian Butko.

In addition to winning various national and regional awards, Chattanooga was the profile city of the August 2007 edition of US Airways Magazine, Volkswagen announced the construction of its first U. S. auto plant in over three decades, the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant, in July 2008, Chattanooga was ranked 8th out of America's 100 largest metro areas for the best " Bang For Your Buck " city, according to Forbes magazine, which measured overall affordability, housing rates, and more, in December 2009, and got the first one gigabit a second Internet service in the United States in September 2010 through the city-owned utility of EPB, among other major events.

Saratoga also was ranked by Forbes in 2009 as one of America's top 20 most-educated small towns.

Additionally, the city was ranked as one of " The Best Places to Raise Your Kids in 2009 " and was ranked 3rd for " America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up ".

Also in 2009, Forbes magazine ranked the Manchester region first on its list of " America's 100 Cheapest Places to Live.

In 2009, Edison was ranked as one of " America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up " by U. S. News and World Report.