The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

From 1966 to 2009, this power lay with the House of Lords, granted by the Practice Statement of 1966.

The film stars Christina Milian ( who previously played cheerleaders in Love Don't Cost a Thing and Man of the House ) and Rachelle Brook Smith, and was released directly to DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2009.

Nick Seymour, Barcelona, October 2007. Crowded House began recording their follow-up to Time on Earth in April 2009, at Finn's own Roundhead Studios.

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.

Ben Bernanke ( lower-right ), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on February 10, 2009.

On November 8, 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that an unnamed Democratic consultant was warned by the White House not to appear on Fox News again.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

Ice-T at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Burning Down the House

In March 2009, the House of Lords Constitution Committee criticised UK government proposals in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill dealing with the Common Travel Area, concluding that " the policy-making process ... has not been informed by any real appreciation of the constitutional status of the Crown dependencies or the rights of free movement of Islanders ".

Lynch adamantly supports the Death Penalty, stating “ there are crimes so heinous that the death penalty is warranted .” The New Hampshire House of Representatives passed legislation in March 2009 to abolish the death penalty, which Lynch threatened to veto.

In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

The " Freedom in the World " index, a measure of political rights and civil liberties published by Freedom House, judged Maldives as " not free " until May 1, 2009, when it was raised to " partly free ".

On December 15, 2009, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, " honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure.

In December 2009, the US House of Representatives voted 409 – 0 to pass a resolution honoring the album as a national treasure.

" The 2009 Random House Dictionary states the word is offensive, and the 2009 Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines it as derogatory in nature.

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 >

File: Barack Obama speaks to Stephen Hawking. jpg | President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009.

In January 2009, the Creative Commons Korea Association was consequently founded as a non-profit incorporated association.

A fragment of an Commons: Image: Profile of intense and punctate reelin IR during hippocampal maturation journal pone 0005505 g001. png | illustration from Campo et al., 2009.

On 16 May 2009, the Daily Telegraph reported that Dalyell had claimed £ 18, 000 for three bookcases just months before his retirement from the House of Commons.

The basic salary of a member of the House of Commons was increased to £ 64, 766 with effect from 1 April 2009.

Further controversy ensued when, on 27 July 2009, the Commons Transport Committee said that ministers should consider operating the East Coast Main Line as a public railway after National Express announced they would walk away.

One of Us Theatrical Company's production of Last of the Red Hot Lovers at the Yachats Commons in 2009 The Yachats Commons was built in the 1930s and used as a school until 1983.

* Report on devolution and the governance of England, House of Commons Justice Committee, 24 May 2009

In September 2009, he featured on a radio podcast by Aleksandr Orlov of Compare the Meerkat, part of the advertising for British website, Comparethemarket. com He was also the subject of an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a result of his support for the re-opening of Morecambe Winter Gardens.

In January 2009, during the Gaza War, Kaufman gave a speech to the House of Commons where he stated: " The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

On 29 April 2009 a motion in the House of Commons by the Liberal Democrats that all Gurkhas be offered an equal right of residence resulted in a defeat for the Government by 267 votes to 246, the only first day motion defeat for a government since 1978.

In 2009, John McDonnell, the Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, in which London Heathrow Airport is situated, was suspended from the Commons after disrupting a debate on expansion of the airport.

Missouri State University won the University Economic Development Association ’ s ( UEDA ) 2009 Award of Excellence for their work on IDEA Commons at the UEDA annual symposium.

* Report on devolution and the governance of England, House of Commons Justice Committee, 24 May 2009

* John Bercow was elected Member of Parliament for Buckingham in 1997, and since 2009, Speaker of the House of Commons

The last such suspension occurred on 25 February 2009 when the Speaker, at the request of prime minister Gordon Brown, suspended the Commons until 12: 30 p. m. as a mark of respect following the unexpected death of Opposition leader David Cameron's son.

On 10 June 2009, Beckett announced that she wished to replace Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons.

( There was only one exception: when John Bercow was presented for Royal Approbation for the office of Speaker of the House of Commons in 2009, Straw was the principal Lord Commissioner, and the Lord Speaker was not in the Commission.

During these years a major transformation gradually took place at Robarts, beginning with the renovation of the apexes on each stack floor in 2008 ( finished in 2010 ), the Map & Data Library on the 5th floor in 2009, the Media Commons on the 3rd floor in 2010, and the second floor porticos in 2011.

On March 4, 2009, a bill to increase the enforcement capabilities of Environment Canada was introduced into the House of Commons.

In June 2009 Hewitt announced that she will be stepping down from the House of Commons.

Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009.

The House of Commons Procedure Committee then re-examined the means of electing a Speaker and recommended a new system which came into effect in 2007 and was first used in June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin.