When Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gabbed with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" about how he adopted his first name from one of "The Brady Bunch" kids, taxpayers paid for his state trooper security detail watching from the wings.
When Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal touts the state's job market and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin sells his city as one of the best places to ride out the recession, it's not just routine boosterism.
A planned $102 million upgrade to state government computer systems has been stalled by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration because of Louisiana's money woes, the governor's top budget adviser said Tuesday.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal again found himself carrying the Republican mantle opposite a primetime appearance from President Barack Obama on Tuesday, saying Republicans must be ready to defy the president when they disagree with his policies. He also joked about his widely panned response to Obama's address to Congress last month.
A month after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal complained about wasteful spending in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package — including money he sneered was for "something called 'volcano monitoring'" — Alaska pilots were grateful for such expenditures.
Widely panned for his national TV address, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal offered his first defense of the speech Monday, saying he sticks by the message, while acknowledging shortcomings in his delivery.
Insane. Childish. Disaster. And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night. Jindal, 37, a Rhodes scholar and son of Indian immigrants, is considered a rising star in Republican ranks and a likely 2012 presidential candidate.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews said he was surprised by the "peculiar stagecraft" of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress, leading him to quietly say "Oh God" as Jindal approached a microphone.
- The Republican National Committee released the following excerpts from the Republican address, entitled "Americans Can Do Anything," that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver immediately following President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress:
Republican leaders continued their attacks on President Barack Obama's handling of the economy Tuesday, calling it irresponsible and certain to increase taxes and federal debt.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will get another prominent GOP role later this month when he delivers the national Republican response to President Barack Obama's first speech to Congress.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday he's not interested in a 2012 Republican presidential bid and will seek a second term as governor in 2011.
On the same day that residents marked the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's wrath, another storm strengthened into a hurricane miles away and threatened to hit the Gulf Coast once again.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill that would have doubled salaries for the state's lawmakers.
New ethics rules touted by Gov. Bobby Jindal as a hallmark of his young administration actually make it harder to prove violations, a government watchdog group said Wednesday.
The dancing and celebrating behind him, new Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal moves into office with a slate of hefty promises to clean up the state's corrupt image, rebuild after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and reverse what he called "decades of failure in government."
National Guard troops bolstering New Orleans' hurricane-depleted police force will remain in the city through June, a spokeswoman for Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal said.
Louisiana's governor-elect says he'll call lawmakers into a special session to reform ethics laws, an effort to change the state's reputation for corruption and hopefully attract new business to the state and win federal hurricane recovery aid.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal easily defeated 11 opponents and became the state's first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction, decades after his parents moved to the state from India to pursue the American dream.
Four years after he lost a heated battle for governor, Rep. Bobby Jindal is well ahead of the pack in a repeat run that carries a different kind of drama: Can he get enough votes to win outright and avoid a runoff?