This is from the speech Lord Palmer, a crossbencher, delivered in the debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics blog + PMQs live - Wednesday 21 July] Reference

As the main crossbencher, she's responsible for helping others decide which way to vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2009] Reference

QUEST: Baroness D'Souza sits as a crossbencher, or independent, with no party affiliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2009] Reference

The rulings coincided with a vote in the House of Lords today to suspend two Labour peers and a crossbencher who wrongly claimed overnight allowances – the most serious sanctions ever taken in the Lords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former David Cameron aide criticised by parliamentary standards watchdog] Reference

He is a 77-year-old Labour party donor who sits as a crossbencher.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tangled Web] Reference

Lord Browne of Madingley, a crossbencher, also has six consultancies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Norman Foster was raised to the peerage in 1999 and sat as a crossbencher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Lady D'Souza (crossbencher) and Lord Hunt, a Tory frontbencher, joined the fray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Bhatia, a crossbencher who ran his own finance companies, has lived with his wife in a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

That same year, he was made a life peer and sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Two years ago, she was created a life peer, sitting as a crossbencher and taking the title Baroness Campbell of Surbiton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news] Reference

He was showing the film to MPs and peers as a guest of UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson and crossbencher Baroness Cox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

• Baroness Usha Prashar, a crossbencher in the House of Lords, who works as the Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Post: Latest] Reference

And Lord Bhatia, a crossbencher who has donated money to Labour, has been recommended for a suspension of between six months and year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Despite being a crossbencher, the peer was the architect of Labour's Every Child Matters programme, a framework to improve the lives of children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

With the amendment now defeated in the Lower House, the Government only needs the support of one crossbencher to get the bill passed in the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

The Independent MP, whose vote Labor secured to retain power, reportedly sought cabinet positions while serving as a crossbencher in the NSW parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

One peer, crossbencher Baroness Murphy, said if the claims proved true it would be "intolerable" corruption which "stinks, stinks, stinks" in Parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

He preferred to stay aloof as a crossbencher, or independent, though his Lords attendance had in any case eased off after his first 10 years in the chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

D'Souza told peers: It is perhaps unusual for a crossbencher to intervene at this late stage of a bill, particularly in a bill which has become so politicised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Labour peers Baroness Uddin and Lord Paul, and crossbencher Lord Bhatia, were suspended after the upper chamber approved the damning judgments of its Privileges and Conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Lady Uddin and crossbencher Lord Bhatia were found to have acted "not in good faith" by incorrectly declaring their main homes in order to claim generous overnight allowances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Labour peers Lady Uddin and Lord Paul and crossbencher Lord Bhatia were suspended after the upper chamber approved the damning judgments of its privileges and conduct committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Labour peer Lady Uddin and crossbencher Lord Bhatia were said to have acted "not in good faith" by incorrectly declaring their main homes in order to claim generous overnight allowances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Baroness Coussins, another crossbencher, who advises the food and drink industry on corporate responsibility, is said to have tried reduce the impact of a bill on alcohol health warnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

Labour peer Lady Uddin and crossbencher Lord Bhatia were found to have acted "not in good faith" by incorrectly declaring their main homes in order to claim generous overnight allowances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

The other members of the panel are Baroness Usha Prashar, a crossbencher, Sir Roderick Lyne, a former diplomat and aide to John Major, and historians Sir Lawrence Freedman and Sir Martin Gilbert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The former top civil servant, who sits as a crossbencher, added that his own 94-year-old mother who had to go to a care home would "get nothing until she had paid for (care) by bankrupting herself".    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Lord Paul, the billionaire steel magnate and Labour donor, is a declared 'non-dom', while architect Lord Foster, a crossbencher, lives in Switzerland and has not answered questions about his status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The rulings coincided with a vote in the House of Lords today to suspend two Labour peers and a crossbencher who wrongly claimed overnight allowances - the most serious sanctions ever taken in the Lords.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In addition to Gilda and myself, it included the Rubins (as in the Reebok sports-empire founder, Stephen); the Deeches (Ruth was then the head of St Annes College at Oxford, later chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and a BBC governor); and George and Annabel Weidenfeld (he, already an independent crossbencher in the Lords, was a toweringly successful publisher who had been on first-name terms with every Israeli prime minister since the founding of the state and with more than a few British ones).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Honour] Reference

Baroness Meacher, a crossbencher, said: "The cap just does not make sense anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

But crossbencher Lord Elystan-Morgan countered: "The issue is not one of flexibility but of basic sanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpenMarket.org] Reference

And he's (supposedly) a crossbencher!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference