Bobby Jindal

The recent spree started April 25 with the announcement "Governor Bobby Jindal will travel to Washington, D.C. today where he will address the U.S.-Azerbaijan Convention." The next day, the message was "Governor Bobby Jindal will travel to Salt ...  

Similarly, the campaign of Broussard, now under indictment on payroll fraud charges, reported receiving a total of $20,000 from four of the alleged straw entities on the same day in October 2007, another potential donation limit violation.  

The brokering of an agreement over how to handle lawsuits involving environmental damages from oil and gas drilling removes Gov. Bobby Jindal from an uncomfortable position.  

The recent spree started April 25 with the announcement “Governor Bobby Jindal will travel to Washington, D.C. today where he will address the U.S.-Azerbaijan Convention.” The next day, the message was: “Governor Bobby Jindal will travel ...  

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to attend a rally for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Milwaukee and also join him at a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association. Both events are planned for Thursday but few details have been released.  

MADISON — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to attend a rally for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Milwaukee and also join him at a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association. Both events are planned for Thursday but few details have ...  

Bobby Jindal from an uncomfortable position. Jindal had allies -- and big-money campaign donors -- on both sides of the issue. Also, the dispute threatened to highlight an often unknown and awkward alliance for a Republican: Jindal has received ...  

The bill was one of several filed in reaction to the situation at Penn State University where athletic department personnel allegedly saw assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky abusing children and did not report the incidents. Lopinto's bill ...  

Re: Louisiana Incarcerated: How we built the world's prison capital,'' Page A1, May 13-20. Gov. Bobby Jindal presides over the highest prison population rate in the world with a cost of billions. How will he look in a national debate if ...  

WASHINGTON: Coming out in support of Mitt Romney's education policy, Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said US President Barack Obama has failed to deliver better schools to American children. "President Obama came into office with ...  

Bobby Jindal. According to the National Journal’s Hotline “Veepstakes,” Jindal is now ranked second. He is being pushed hard by influential conservative activists such as Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and editorial writers ...  

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal's financial disclosure report for ... The governor is among those who must disclose employment information, nonprofit positions, income, investments and liabilities. In 2010, the governor helped write a book ...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal endorsed Rick Perry for president on Monday, calling the Texas governor "the candidate who can lead our party to victory in 2012." Jindal and Perry announced the endorsement ahead of Monday night's GOP ...  

WASHINGTON --Gov. Bobby Jindal appeared on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" as Mitt Romney's official designee on education reform Wednesday and delivered what amounted to be a nearly eight-minute audition to be Romney's running mate. "Grover Norquist ...  

Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley both travel to Wisconsin to campaign for Scott Walker in his recall election,. The headline in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reads "Walker, Barrett pick up national endorsements." But who's ...  

Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, who handled Pugh's bill on the Senate floor, said the legislation gives voters the right to choose whether to impose the same limits that are already set for lawmakers and the state Board of Elementary and ...  

Rob Portman of Ohio -- Rubio and Portman being the most talked-about Romney choices at the moment. "Jindal's strength is that he threads the needle between these two competing models," wrote Klein. "He's more exciting than Portman and more ...  

In an op-ed for Politico on Wednesday, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist called on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to select Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as his running mate. That came just a week after former Bush ...  

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says Wisconsin's recall election is being watched around the nation, but it ultimately comes down to whether Wisconsinites choose to retain their strong conservative leader. Jindal was in the Milwaukee ...  

BATON ROUGE -- A proposal to enrol newly hired state employees in a 401(k)-style plan was blocked Thursday from final passage to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk, forcing the measure into a conference committee. House Bill 61 by Rep. Kevin Pearson, R ...  

WAUKESHA — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says Wisconsin's recall election is being watched around the nation, but it ultimately comes down to whether Wisconsinites choose to retain their strong conservative leader. Jindal was in the Milwaukee suburb of ...  

Notes from the campaign trail Thursday: » Jindal campaigns for Walker: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wisconsin's recall election is being watched around the nation, but it ultimately comes down to whether Wisconsinites choose to retain their ...  

However, if you cross off all those who are white males you are left with just one name. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal should be Mitt Romney’s running mate.  His addition to the ticket would add diversity, regional balance, and youth.  

Waukesha - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal threw his support behind Gov. Scott Walker Thursday during a rally at a GOP campaign headquarters. "He has been a great leader for Wisconsin, a great leader for America," Jindal said. Jindal, who campaigned ...  

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday signed three bills designed to streamline sentencing and parole standards for non-violent state prisoners. All of the measures are recommendations from the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, which ...  

Some people say Grover Norquist, president of the notoriously hard-line Americans for Tax Reform, may be the most influential person in the Republican Party. Granted, those people tend to be Democrats, or Republicans who pine for a bygone era of ...  

And in an Alabama appearance earlier this month, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called Obama "the most incompetent president since Jimmy Carter." Not that any of them – or any of the others who may have landed a spot on Romney's list – are ...  

But despite all the national influences, Bobby Jindal says it ultimately comes down to whether state residents want to keep their strong conservative leader. The Republican Jindal campaigned with Governor Scott Walker Thursday in Waukesha.  

If political wisdom prevails, Gov. Bobby Jindal will be asked to join the Republican ticket as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's running mate in this fall's presidential race.  

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to attend a rally for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Milwaukee and also join him at a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association. Both events are planned for Thursday but few details have been released. Walker's ...  

Governor Bobby Jindal signed legislation today to extend TOPS eligibility for students that reenlist and maintain continuous active duty in the U.S. The Governor signed HB 945 by Representative Henry  

BATON ROUGE, LA - Governor Bobby Jindal signed legislation Wednesday to keep Louisiana's communities safe by cracking down on sex offenders and criminal street gangs. The Governor signed HB 556, HB 620, and HB 790, which are all part of the Governor's 2012 ...  

Indian American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good chance of being selected as vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a media report has said. "Though the nation's first Indian ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Oct. 23 easily coasted to a second term, winning in a landslide election after failing to attract any well-known or deep-pocketed opposition. The 40-year-old Republican overwhelmed nine ...  

Jefferson Parish could soon get hundreds of new jobs. Governor Bobby Jindal announced Wednesday an international company is interested in building a new ammonia plant in Waggaman. And that's not the only possible sign of development in the parish.  

A package of tax breaks sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal is near final legislative passage in the Louisiana House, but with more restrictions for their use than when the rebates were proposed by the governor. Lawmakers in the Senate added several hurdles before ...  

MILWAUKEE -- A new ad released today by Barrett for Wisconsin calls on Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to help Wisconsinites weed out corruption in Scott Walker's office. During Jindal's 2007 campaign, he ran on a platform of cleaning up Louisiana politics and ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A package of tax breaks sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal is nearing final legislative passage in the Louisiana House, but with more restrictions for their use than when they were proposed. Lawmakers in the Senate added several hurdles ...  

Indian American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good chance of being selected as vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a media report has said. (AP Photo) WASHINGTON: Indian ...  

Tax advocates Grover Norquist and Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform are touting Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as a logical choice for Mitt Romney's running mate. Jindal is from the South, his family is from an ethnic minority (Indian) and he's only ...  

Bobby Jindal (Michael Conroy/AP)Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist is encouraging Mitt Romney to choose Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as his running mate. In an op-ed published in Politico and co-authored by Patrick Gleason, ATR's director of ...  

Bobby Jindal says Wisconsin's recall election is being watched ... on Thursday with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a fellow Republican. Walker faces a recall election June 5, in part for pushing a law that severely restricted collective-bargaining rights ...  

The Jindal team has been preparing for his rise to national prominence from the beginning of his political career in the 2003 campaign for Governor of Louisiana. After losing that race, Jindal immediately began a campaign for Congress, which he used as a ...  

Baton Rouge, La. - A Louisiana congressman is asking Governor Bobby Jindal to reconsider his plans to close two ferries. U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond sent a letter to Jindal on Monday, May 21, that was critical of plans to end ferry service at Edgard and White Castle.  

When a House committee voted to abolish the state inspector general's office, Gov. Bobby Jindal promised to put up a fight. That was only to be expected, given that Jindal never tires of criss-crossing the country to explain how he single ...  

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says Wisconsin's recall election is being watched around the nation, but it ultimately comes down to whether Wisconsinites choose to retain their strong conservative leader. Jindal was in Waukesha on Thursday with Wisconsin Gov.  

Bobby Jindal told members of his political party Tuesday night. Jindal described the premise of the question -- "Do you want the president to fail?" -- as the "latest gotcha game" being perpetrated by Democrats against Republicans. "Make no ...  

A package of tax breaks sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal is nearing final legislative passage in the Louisiana House, but with more restrictions for their use than when they were proposed. Lawmakers in the Senate added several hurdles before the tax breaks ...  

Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program to send students to private schools with taxpayer money. The Senate has approved a $3.4 billion public school funding formula that also will help finance Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program to send ...  

Jindal to attend rally for Walker, fundraiser Jindal to attend rally for Walker, fundraiser Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to attend a rally for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Milwaukee and also join him at a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association.  

House Bill 543 by Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, was approved 23-12 and now heads to Gov. Bobby Jindal who has indicated he will sign it. The bill failed to pass Monday, 18-19, two votes short of the minimum needed. Sen. Danny Martiny ...  

The upside for the Jindal administration, after the gutting of its budget, is that the appropriations bill is out of the rebellious House and with the friendly hands and wise heads of the Senate. Led by the masterful Senate President John Alario ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declined to say whether he would take the job should Mitt Romney offer him the number-two spot on the presidential ticket. “I have the job I want,” Jindal said on CNN’s Starting Point on Thursday. “I’ll ...  

providing a large dose of the infectious enthusiasm that has made him an unlikely but nearly unstoppable political power. With a huge portion of the expected attendees held up in traffic by a bad wreck on a highway over Mobile Bay, organizers extended the ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declined to say whether he would take the job should Mitt Romney offer him the number-two spot on the presidential ticket. “I have the job I want,” Jindal said on CNN’s Starting Point on Thursday. “I’ll be ...  

Gov. Bobby Jindal's financial disclosure report for 2011 lists his $127,407 annual salary as governor plus various sources of investment income for him and his wife Supriya.  

This just in: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has called into question Barack Obama's history with lemonade stands. Indeed, details about Obama's background with lemonade -- via stand or otherwise -- remain unclear, though evidence suggests that the president ...  

Washington: Indian American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good chance of being selected as vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a media report has said. “Though the nation’s ...  

Despite his denial, Romney has a short list for VP that includes Gov. Mitch Daniels and Gov. Bobby Jindal. Romney also has a list of tall people. Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a Romney adviser, told NPR that Romney’s list of possible vice ...  

Interviews with several Republican leaders and private conversations with people close to both Mitt Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal suggest his chance of being selected as the presumptive candidate’s running mate may be as good as any ...  

I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub," has chosen the vice presidential candidate whom he believes would be the best bathtub-drowner — and it's Gov. Bobby Jindal.   In an essay for Politico.com, Norquist ...  

Bobby Jindal's administration at odds over the depth of cuts that should be levied across state agencies. At issue is whether to use $270 million in one-time cash to balance the spending plans for the 2012-13 fiscal year, as Jindal wants — or ...  

As Congress muddles along and the 2012 election cycle heads toward the summer doldrums, there will be increasing speculation about whom Mitt Romney could pick as a running mate. Romney would do well to have a wing man who can astutely explain the flaws in ...  

Bobby Jindal is, literally, a Rhodes scholar. He is also a biology major who claims there is "no scientific theory" that explains how organic life comes from inorganic matter. You know, like abiogenesis through the formation of amino acids, most likely in the Eoarchean era.  

The day-long Louisiana House impasse over the state budget broke Friday after a group of 51 representatives ordered Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration to come up with $267.7 million in cuts from select sources to strip one-time money from the ...  

In a Politico op-ed Wednesday morning, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist wades into the veepstakes debate — and makes the case for Bobby Jindal as Mitt Romney’s running mate. Norquist, who is best known for his anti-tax pledge signed by the overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans, argues that the Louisiana governor is the best choice for Romney because he “has already implemented the sort of bold reforms at the...  

Mitt "Electability" Romney has won just one general election in nearly twenty years of politicking. His one and only term of office left him with an approval rating of 34%. Make no mistake about it: this was the best guy the Republicans had to ...  

“President Obama hasn’t run anything before he was elected President of the United States. Never ran a state, never ran a business, and never ran a lemonade stand. This job’s too important for on-the-job training. In contrast, Mitt Romney ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will reflect on his state's recent school choice expansion and stress the importance of continuing to increase educational options during a speech at the American Federation for Children's third annual National Policy Summit ...  

It sometimes seems as if Republicans haven't updated their talking points in a very long while. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has endorsed Mitt Romney and is sometimes mentioned as a potential running mate, attacked President Obama on ...  

On May 16, Politico published an opinion piece by Grover Norquist and an Americans for Tax Reform colleague headlined, “Why Romney should tap Jindal.” The very next day, Politico posed the question to its “Arena” contributors, “Who ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will reflect on his state’s recent school choice expansion and stress the importance of continuing to increase educational options during a speech at the American Federation for Children’s third annual National Policy Summit. It will be held on May 3-4 in Jersey City, New Jersey.  

On CNN's Starting Point this morning, Soledad O'Brien spoke with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and, much to his apparent chagrin, repeatedly tried to get him to acknowledge whether he would be open to being presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney 's running mate.  

MOBILE, Ala. - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took aim at President Barack Obama during a speech here Thursday, telling an audience of state Republicans that it’s time for change in the White House. “He’s the most liberal president in my ...  

Following historic bipartisan votes in the Louisiana legislature, Governor Bobby Jindal today signed into law one of the most sweeping school choice expansions in the nation, representing an enormous victory for low- and middle-income families from across ...  

An endorsement from powerful anti-tax activist Grover Norquist thrusts the Louisiana governor to the head of the GOP veepstakes pack. Does he belong there? Norquist's backing really helps Jindal: "Jindal's name is not often floated among the very top tier ...  

JERSEY CITY, NJ—Addressing an audience of school choice proponents tonight, Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal assured them they had “the truth and the American people on [their] side” and acknowledged that it wasn’t “easy ...  

In the fifth part of the series on Indian Americans who won the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships, Arthur J Pais profiles Rina Thomas, daughter of Indian immigrant doctors settled in New Orleans. I am much attached to New Orleans and I think I ...  

WASHINGTON -- The woman described as the "education world's most prominent intellectual," wrote this week that with the recent passage by the Louisiana Legislature of Gov. Bobby Jindal's education reform package, "Louisiana now goes to the head ...  

Expanded school choice program, which could help thousands of families across the state, builds momentum for educational options nationwide BATON ROUGE, LA (April 18, 2012)—Following historic bipartisan votes in the Louisiana legislature, Governor Bobby Jindal today signed into law one of the most sweeping school choice expansions in the nation, representing an enormous victory for low- and middle-income families from across the state...  

Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana) said on FOX News today. For a breakdown on just what type of pre-public office experience President Obama does have, I refer to this timeless piece from the Weekly Standard. The mind reels: By this point Obama had left ...  

JERSEY CITY, NJ-Addressing an audience of school choice proponents tonight, Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal assured them they had "the truth and the American people on [their] side" and acknowledged that it wasn't "easy" for them negotiating the ...  

Bobby Jindal can do not just all that ... the federal level," Norquist wrote in the op-ed co-written with Americans for Tax Reform's Patrick Gleason. Norquist predicted that high energy prices would be an important issue in the presidential ...  

JERSEY CITY, NJ—Addressing an audience of school choice proponents tonight, Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal assured them they had “the truth and the American people on [their] side” and acknowledged that it wasn’t “easy” for them negotiating the political spectrum. “You got one political party...  

Under the new, amended versions of the proposals those provisions, which would all decrease the value of employee pensions, would be phased in over the course of several years starting in in 2013 and the employee contribution increase would be ...  

A $44 million investment at the Bogalusa International Paper mill on Friday will not only mean jobs and a huge capital investment in Washington Parish, but the trickle down effect will also help St. Tammany’s economy as well. The governor ...  

When Gov. Bobby Jindal took office in January 2008, he inherited a state budget that included a $1 billion surplus. During these tough economic times, that seems like a distant memory, almost a fairy tale — yet it was only four years ago.   What did ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has endorsed Mitt Romney and is sometimes mentioned as a potential running mate, attacked President Obama on Tuesday and defended Romney's record in business. “President Obama hasn't run anything before he ...  

He's the latest in a string of high-profile speakers who have been announced as Summit speakers, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and author and commentator Juan Williams. The American Federation for ...  

Oh Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Why do you still try to talk at people? Don’t you remember the last time you had an audience, when you skulked around corners in your haunted mansion to give the hilarious response to the State of the Union, the unkind comparisons to Mr. Burns, and a skeleton, and Mr. [...]  

Philip Klein, DC ExaminerIt is hard to predict who Mitt Romney will ultimately choose as his vice presidential running mate. But it is clear which pick would be the strongest: Louisianas Republican governor, Bobby Jindal.Romneys fundamental choice is between someone exciting and potentially risky, or somebody boring and safe. A charismatic, conservative choice -- perhaps someone like Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. -- could energize a base that is...  

BATON ROUGE -- The city of New Orleans will set up a new method for drivers to appeal tickets issued by traffic cameras if Gov. Bobby Jindal goes along with a bill passed 93-0 by the House late Wednesday. Under existing procedure, a traffic ...  

Bobby Jindal. Senate Bill 353 by Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans, that establishes by law the month of March as Irish American Heritage Month, won unanimous approval in the Senate and House and now heads to Jindal, who will have the last word ...  

In an op-ed published in Politico and co-authored by Patrick Gleason, ATR's director of state affairs, they outlined the case for Jindal, pointing to his overhaul of the state education system, a commitment he made never to raise taxes and his work with ...  

David Vitter can't seem to tear himself away from Baton Rouge ... If he craves a formal leadership role, a future run for Louisiana's powerful governorship might be his best bet. Not that he's bothering to wait. As it stands now, Vitter is ...  

On my nightly cruise of the news talk shows of Fox, CNN and MSNBC, I happened to sit a spell watching a discussion on the latter’s network about the possibilities of our own Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for Romney’s veep choice. I have frequently ...  

It’s not too early to begin writing the legacy of Bobby Jindal. A lot of conservatives in the national media are touting Jindal for vice president of the United States. Either these conservatives are not fiscal conservatives or they are ...  

It’s not too early to begin writing the legacy of Bobby Jindal. A lot of conservatives in the national media are touting Jindal for vice president of the United States. Either these conservatives are not fiscal conservatives or they are ...  

Indian American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has a good chance of being selected as vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a media report has said. “Though the nation’s first Indian-American ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal is headed to North Carolina for a meeting of Republican governors. The GOP governor's trip comes as the state's budget is mired in disputes, pieces of Jindal's agenda are stalled in the waning days of the ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal might be making lemonaide out of a lemon of a budgetary problem back home. On Tuesday, he took his eyes off of Republican Party infighting over the use of one-time money in balancing the budget to, perhaps, try out for the ...  

BATON ROUGE, LA. — Gov. Bobby Jindal will travel to New Jersey next week to speak to a pro-voucher group, only two weeks after the Louisiana governor signed a bill that creates a statewide voucher program that will use tax dollars to send ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy accused Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration Tuesday of using scare tactics to drum up support for restoring hundreds of millions of dollars to next year's budget.  

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal defended Mitt Romney against attacks by President Obama on his record at Bain Capital. “President Obama hasn’t run anything before he was elected president of the United States,” charged Jindal, whose name is ...  

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy accused Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration today of using scare tactics to drum up support for restoring hundreds of millions of dollars to next year's budget. In a letter to ...  

Within hours of the Louisiana Legislature giving final approval to Gov. Bobby Jindal's main K-12 education bills in April, the governor's top strategist and close confidant Timmy Teepell announced via his Twitter account: "Largest school voucher ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (WTW) — At a Baton Rouge Catholic school with New Orleans' archbishop looking on, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed sweeping legislation overhauling public education in the state while allowing many parents to send their ...  

During Utah stop, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says Obama would hurt energy By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 26, 2012 06:39PM MDT Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal issued a dire warning Thursday that if President Barack Obama is re-elected, the nation’s energy sector would see “continued hostility” toward production and a potential cap-and-trade edict. “You already see it in the first term,” Jindal said. Leasing offshore...  

With the Republican presidential nomination apparently settled, figuring out who will be presumptive nominee Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running has begun to rival baseball as the national pastime. As Romney has started to lead national polls against embattled incumbent Democrat Pres. Barack Obama, the stakes grow higher and especially so in Louisiana, as one potential contender is Gov. Bobby Jindal.Talk of making him the game changer on...  

Washington, April 11 (ANI): Indian-origin Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has came out in support of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as his closest rival Rick Santorum suspended his presidential election campaign. Congratulations to ...  

People have always told Bobby Jindal to slow down. The Louisiana governor has a tendency to speak faster than his audience is able to think, so when it came time to deliver the Republican response to President Obama's first address to a joint ...  

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized President Obama‘s experience before he became president in an interview Tuesday, and defended Mitt Romney, who has recently come under attack by Obama’s campaign for his record at Bain Capital. “President Obama hasn’t run anything before he was elected President...  

Louisiana farmers' investment to prevent the boll weevil from making a comeback will be preserved after Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a bill by state Sen. Francis Thompson to protect the money.  

Word comes from Bill Armistead, Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will make two separate appearances in Mobile this week. Governor Jindal has agreed to be a guest for a fundraiser at a private ...  

Gov. Bobby Jindal is headed to North Carolina for a meeting of Republican governors. The GOP governor's trip comes as the state's budget is mired in disputes, pieces of Jindal's agenda are stalled in the waning days of the legislative session and lawmakers ...  

BATON ROUGE -- Gridlock and discontent over Gov. Bobby Jindal's legislative agenda have replaced the string of victories that marked the early weeks of the Legislature's session for the Republican governor. After pushing through a series of ...  

It is that spirit, and that commitment to leave a better Louisiana to our children and grandchildren, that will allow Louisiana's economy to grow and our people to prosper. Bobby Jindal is in his second term as governor of Louisiana.  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana senators agreed to Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to boost the amount rank & file state workers pay for their retirement - but only after adding several provisions that make it unlikely the full 2 percentage point increase ...  

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal was off again Friday, this time to address the Oklahoma Republican Party's state convention in Norman, Okla., his press office said. Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin said that Jindal was scheduled to return later ...  

The Obama campaign said Jindal is skewing the numbers. "Here are the facts: President Obama has aggressively pursued an all-of-the-above energy strategy," said Obama campaign spokesman Tom Reynolds. "As domestic oil production has reached an 8-year high ...  

Bobby Jindal, Republican Louisiana Governor, has been targeted in the latest speculation of who Mitt Romney would shoose as his running-mate, if he wins the Republican Caucus. He recently spoke on CNN’s “Starting Point,” stating that ...  

From URF / Right Nation - The American Conservative Union, URF Right Nation, and The Heartland Institute are pleased to announce that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will be a featured speaker at CPAC Chicago on June 8, 2012. Rumored as...  

BATON ROUGE -- The bulk of Gov. Bobby Jindal's pension changes, including a last-minute revision to plans to raise the retirement age for state employees, unanimously passed a Senate panel Monday despite opposition from state workers, retirees ...  

Henry and Ligi both said the Legislature must look at consolidation in the state's four-year college ... plugging corporate tax exemptions in next year's session, when such bills would be allowed. Edwards noted that even in a dire financial ...  

We went to last night's New York Republican state dinner and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal gave a big, slashing keynote speech at it. He really looked liked he wanted to be Romney's running mate. In some ways the event looked like a passing of the torch ...  

The spat that has erupted between the Gov. Bobby Jindal Administration and Treasurer John Kennedy only may be understood in the context of political ambition that ultimately impedes optimal policy-making on the issue of the budget.It began when Kennedy, no stranger to offering advice to other policy-makers even when it has little to do with if anything with his official duties, took matters a step further and criticized Jindal and his crew for...  

State Treasurer John Kennedy accused Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday of using scare tactics to fight the Louisiana House’s changes to the $25 billion state spending plan. “It is not necessary to make the draconian reductions ... you and your staff have ...  

Louisiana senators agreed to Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to boost the amount rank-and-file state workers pay for their retirement - but only after adding several provisions that make it unlikely the full 2 percentage point increase would take effect.  

The final count comes out June 28, three weeks after the recall. Jindal to attend rally for Walker, fundraiser Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to attend a rally for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Milwaukee and also join him at a fundraiser for the ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Senate has started debating Gov. Bobby Jindal's package of bills to charge rank-and-file state workers more and make them wait longer for their pension benefits. The debate Wednesday comes on a day ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Senate has started debating Gov. Bobby Jindal's package of bills to charge rank-and-file state workers more and make them wait longer for their pension benefits. The debate Wednesday comes on a day proclaimed by Jindal ...  

Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge, modeled the contribution rebate program after a decade-old income tax ... the House Ways and Means Committee approved without objection a plan from Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, to allow general fund rebates for ...  

Bobby Jindal's speech Thursday night to the annual New York Republican dinner in Manhattan. A report on the newspaper's website says his keynote speech started out well enough, but many Republicans said "droned on far too long. He told a stale ...  

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is heading to New Mexico next week to raise money for Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and the state GOP. Martinez political adviser Jay McCleskey said Tuesday that Jindal is the featured guest ...  

Gridlock and discontent over Gov. Bobby Jindal's legislative agenda have replaced the string of victories that marked the early weeks of the Legislature's session for the Republican governor. After pushing through a series of education changes ...  

Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy accused Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration today of using scare tactics to drum up support for restoring hundreds of millions of dollars to next year's budget. In a letter to Jindal, Kennedy asks his fellow ...  

Washington: Louisiana’s Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal came out in support of Mitt Romney as his closest rival Rick Santorum suspended his campaign, effectively ceding the Republican presidential nomination to the frontrunner ...  

Governor Bobby Jindal announced Monday he has signed bills passed by the Legislature into law, bringing the total number of bills signed for the 2012 Regular Legislative Session to 34 bills.  

The tinfoil-hat-wearing, black-helicopter-searching crowd is at it again, trying to expand recall petition efforts to include more of the more helpful members of the Louisiana Legislature. As we may expect, there is, of course, much less to this than meets the eye.Currently on a jihad against Gov. Bobby Jindal and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, the Recall Bobby Jindal group plans on expanding efforts to include state Reps. Kevin Pearsonand Greg...  

Washington, April 11 (IANS) As Mitt Romney emerged as the virtually certain Republican presidential nominee with Rick Santorum suddenly dropping out of the race, Louisiana’s Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal ... “This game is a long, long, long ...  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has always been a man in a hurry. By the age of 20, he was an honors graduate of Brown University with double majors in public policy and biology. By 23, he had completed a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford (having ...  

Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Education headlines via email. Gov. Bobby Jindal has remade the Louisiana public schools system with impressive speed over the past legislative session. Last week, he signed into law a suite of landmark ...  

The accolades Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gets from Republicans outside Louisiana sometimes obscures the intra-party tensions he faces back home -- namely in the form of Republican Sen. David Vitter, who is thought to have his eye on the governorship in the future.  

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal says that when it comes to retirees, "we are making promises we cannot keep." Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s Kodak moment came this past January, during a weekly lunch meeting of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club. The image ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana senators are watering down Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposals to charge state employees more and make them wait longer for their pension benefits. The Senate Finance Committee rewrote the bills at a Monday hearing, to shrink ...  

Indian-origin Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, who has supported Mitt Romney as presidential nominee, has made it clear that he is focused on being governor and not the Republican vice presidential nominee. Indian-origin Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal ...  

Two teachers have launched a recall drive to oust Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and state House Speaker Chuck Kleckley (R-Lake Charles) from office. Angie Bonvillain and Brenda Romero, teachers in Calcasieu Parish, have launched recalls for ...  

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a bill to simplify the calculation for how criminals convicted of non-violent, non-sex-related offenses earn "good time" in jail for a possible earlier release. Supporters say the changes will allow ...  

Gov. Bobby Jindal has remade the Louisiana public schools system with impressive speed over the past legislative session. Last week, he signed into law a suite of landmark reform bills that will likely change the direction of public education in Louisiana ...  

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been floated as a possible running mate for Mitt Romney, but he says he's not eager to fill the slot. "I've got the job that I want," Jindal told Politico. “Our next challenge is pension reform." Jindal endorsed ...  

BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law today a bill to empower parents with more choices to help ensure that no child is trapped in a failing school. HB 969 by Representative Kirk Talbot authorizes a dollar for dollar rebate for donations ...  

The new law assigns state Superintendent John White to write rules and regulations about what kind of testing measures and associated consequences will be applied to the voucher students and their schools. Jindal yielded the microphone to ...  

McCleskey said Martinez and Jindal serve together on the executive committee of the Republican Governors Association, which was the largest contributor to Martinez's gubernatorial campaign. That event is to take place before Jindal appears at a ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Senate has again delayed debate on Gov. Bobby Jindal's bill to charge rank-and-file state workers more and make them wait longer for their pension benefits, amid questions about whether they have enough votes to pass.  

Recent changes to Gov. Bobby Jindal's overhaul of the state retirement system address some criticism and should yield more legislative support. The main change affects the use of roughly $60 million to $70 million in annual savings expected by ...  

Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration moved to pre-emptively blunt legislative hostility to his proposed pension overhaul Friday, rolling out a series of amendments to the plan before it comes up for debate this month. But while the changes could ...  

David Vitter can barely stand each other ... In the first months of this term, Vitter cheered on Jindal's change agenda for K-12 education and the public retirement system. The truce ended last week when Vitter swung from the right, criticizing ...  

With its education package now passed, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration will turn its attention to a recently overhauled group of bills dealing with state retirement systems. The legislation has not yet been scheduled for debate, but will ...  

WILMINGTON, Del. - With Rick Santorum out of the race, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and several other high ranking Republicans endorsed Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee today, saying that he looks forward to supporting the candidate "in retiring ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. - Gov. Bobby Jindal says a Baton Rouge-based industrial equipment supplier plans to spend $10 million to build a new headquarters in the city. Jindal's office announced Tuesday that DMC Carter Chambers Inc., a subsidiary of Pon ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (WTW) — Gov. Bobby Jindal says a Baton Rouge-based industrial equipment supplier plans to spend $10 million to build a new headquarters in the city. Jindal's office announced Tuesday that DMC Carter Chambers Inc., a subsidiary of Pon ...  

BATON ROUGE — A push by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration to merge the governor's Office of Elderly Affairs into the state health department appears to be dead for the session after facing strong opposition from parish councils on aging around Louisiana.  

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asks Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) about the possibility of accepting the GOP VP nomination, if he is asked. Jindal says, "I’ve got the job that I want…. but I’m definitely going to be supporting Mitt Romney and ...  

BATON ROUGE — It was a simple matter to label Gov. Bobby Jindal’s education reform package this session a Republican effort, especially since it’s the party of the governor and the lawmakers who handled his legislation. Gov. Bobby Jindal ...  

Jindal's retirement bills Senate debating Gov. Jindal's retirement bills The Louisiana Senate has started debating Gov. Bobby Jindal's package of bills to charge rank-and-file state workers more and make them wait longer for their pension benefits.  

For the record: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says his current job is the one he wants. Jindal appeared on CNN today and gave what has become one of the customary responses of potential running mates for Mitt Romney when they're asked about their interest.  

WASHINGTON-- Veteran syndicated columnist George Will writes this weekend that likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney needs a running mate with "intellectual firepower, born of immersion in policy complexities, sufficient to refute Obama's ...  

Two St. Tammany Parish legislators have joined Gov. Bobby Jindal and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley as targets of voter recall efforts, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Wednesday. Recall organizers filed paperwork initiating petition drives ...  

JERSEY CITY, N.J., May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal yesterday renewed their commitment to school choice and the expansion of educational options in their respective states during ...  

Bobby Jindal signed a bill by state Sen. Francis Thompson to protect the money. Thompson filed Senate Bill 646 when Jindal initially considered sweeping $766,000 from the fund to help balance the state's Medicaid budget. But Jindal eventually ...  

Gov. Jindal's staff must believe the old adage that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, it eventually becomes the truth. They want us to believe that the governor's school voucher bill will not do what it clearly does: take local tax ...  

Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including his new first novel, "Patriots." Washington (CNN)-- Republicans have a Latino problem.  

For our May issue, the Townhall editorial team compiled a list of the hottest vice presidential contenders out there and made the case for their selection. We had a a few criteria when crafting the list: a statesman (or woman!) who has led on ...  

Gov. Bobby Jindal's education reform package was described as "the nation's most expansive system of school choice" in a piece published by The Wall Street Journal this morning. The newspaper published a piece on the expansion of school choice ...  

Baton Rouge, La. - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to increase the flow of water through the Old River Control Structure into the Atchafalaya Basin. In a letter to a corps official, Jindal said abnormally low water levels ...  

SALT LAKE CITY -- Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal appeared with Gov. Herbert in a special meeting of top energy brass in Utah. The idea was to outline goals for the future---goals that include electing Mitt Romney for President, and re-electing Herbert for ...  

Bobby Jindal has been a bill-signing machine. He inked 39 yesterday which brings his total for the 2012 Legislative Session to 150. If you notice, each argument is heavy on his policy smarts and executive chops, and are written almost like the VP should go ...  

The Louisiana Senate has again delayed debate on Gov. Bobby Jindal's bill to charge rank-and-file state workers more and make them wait longer for their pension benefits, amid questions about whether they have enough votes to pass. Sen.  

“You got one political party that seems to be governed by the national teachers unions, you got another political party that sometimes seems too afraid to stand up for what it actually says it believes in,” Jindal said at the American ...  

“You got one political party that seems to be governed by the national teachers unions, you got another political party that sometimes seems too afraid to stand up for what it actually says it believes in,” Jindal said at the American Federation for ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to make thousands of state workers pay more and wait longer for their retirement benefits is planned for an overhaul by senators who are resisting some of the changes proposed. The Senate diverted the bills ...  

The AP notes that the legislation "may be the signature achievement" of Bobby Jindal's second term. At a Baton Rouge Catholic school with New Orleans' archbishop looking on, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed sweeping legislation overhauling ...  

Governor Bobby Jindal brings hope and change to the education system in Louisiana. The AP reports: "The Louisiana House has given final passage to Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to make it tougher for teachers to reach the job protection known as tenure and ...  

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill that creates a new tax break program that will give rebates for donations to voucher programs that allow students to attend private schools. Jindal says it will give children in failing public schools ...  

Bogalusa, La. - Governor Bobby Jindal announced on Friday that International Paper (IP) is investing $44 million to modernize the Bogalusa site, which helps retain over 400 jobs at the facility and nearly 1,700 jobs in the community. In February ...  

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House upended Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to create a new retirement plan for rank-and-file workers with a sweeping change Tuesday that would put those newly hired employees into the federal Social Security program.  

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House upended Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to create a new retirement plan for rank-and-file workers with a sweeping change Tuesday that would put those newly hired employees into the federal Social Security program.  

Louisiana's governor, on the move in 'Bama. MOBILE, Ala. -- Probably no governor in the country has had as good a start to 2012 as Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, who orchestrated a triumphant romp through his state's legislature of the most ...  

WDSU .com Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told a national television audience on Thursday that he will fully support Mitt Romney's bid to become president -- but he stopped short of a flat "no" when asked about the possibility he might be part of that ticket.  

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal is on his way to New Jersey to promote the school voucher expansion he recently signed into law. Jindal will speak at the 3rd annual policy summit of the American Federation for Children, an organization that ...  

"Step out of line, the man come and take you away," wrote Stephen Stills. This time, the man — Gov. Bobby Jindal — came for LSU System President John Lombardi, who stepped out of line by daring to fail to praise the governor's plan for ...  

Bobby Jindal. But the independence is a bit tainted by the fact that U.S. Sen. David Vitter, who is recognized by many in the Legislature as a probable candidate for governor in 2015, was pulling some strings from Washington while in regular ...  

HOUMA, La - A group of teachers at Houma Junior High School designed a T-shirt criticizing Gov. Bobby Jindal's education policies as part of a decade-long, sometimes sarcastic tradition. However, school system administrators nixed the shirt ...  

In an MSNBC interview this morning, Chuck Todd asked Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) about the apparently successful efforts by anti-gay extremists to force openly gay foreign policy spokesperson Richard Grenell out of the Romney presidential campaign. Jindal said he had no problem having openly gay staffers and claimed that qualifications should be the only consideration [...]  

Louisiana's Governor, on the Move in 'Bama. MOBILE, Ala. -- Probably no governor in the country has had as good a start to 2012 as Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, who orchestrated a triumphant romp through his state's legislature of the most ...  

Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday vaguely responded to questions about him serving as vice president on the Republican presidential ticket in 2012. YouTube Video:  No YouTube read more  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is asking the Army Corps of Engineers to increase the flow of water through the Old River Control Structure into the Atchafalaya Basin. In a letter Tuesday to a corps official, Jindal said abnormally low ...  

The best evidence that Gov. Bobby Jindal does not plan a career in national politics is a negative inference: his speaking style, which he has changed little in four years of statewide office. Jindal is nothing if not a political animal. But a smart ...  

A group of teachers at Houma Junior High School designed a T-shirt criticizing Gov. Bobby Jindal's education policies as part of a decade-long, sometimes sarcastic tradition. However, school system administrators nixed the shirt, saying recent ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana House has upended Gov. Bobby Jindal's push to create a new retirement plan for rank-and-file workers. Lawmakers narrowly backed a requirement that any new employees put into the revamped retirement plan ...