Louisiana Gubernatorial Addresses; Governor Bobby Jindal's Address to the Special Session on the Budget
- Collection
- Louisiana Gubernatorial Addresses
- Producing Organization
- Louisiana Public Broadcasting
- Contributing Organization
- Louisiana Public Broadcasting (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/17-34fn3t11
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Robyn Ekings hosts live coverage of Governor Bobby Jindal's opening address to a 2008 Special Session of the Louisiana Legislature on March 9, 2008. Prior to the speech, Ekings and Barry Erwin of the Council for a Better Louisiana (CABL) discuss Jindal's spending plan for the $1.1 billion budget surplus. In his speech, Governor Jindal discusses: eliminating the business taxes on utilities, new equipment, and capital debt; economic development, including reauthorizing the new markets tax credit program; and providing a tax deduction for school tuition. He also outlines his $1.1 billion spending plan, including $515 million for roads, bridges, and ports, $300 million for hurricane protection and coastal restoration, $50 million for the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, $80 million for higher education infrastructure, and $70 million for paying down the debt of the state's retirement systems. Following the speech, Ekings and Erwin analyze the Governor's address.
- Date
- 2008-03-09
- Asset type
- Program
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Producing Organization: Louisiana Public Broadcasting
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Identifier: IM751/2 (Louisiana Public Broadcasting Archives)
Format: MPEG IMX
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:29:45
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Louisiana Gubernatorial Addresses; Governor Bobby Jindal's Address to the Special Session on the Budget,” 2008-03-09, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 21, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-17-34fn3t11.
- MLA: “Louisiana Gubernatorial Addresses; Governor Bobby Jindal's Address to the Special Session on the Budget.” 2008-03-09. Louisiana Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 21, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-17-34fn3t11>.
- APA: Louisiana Gubernatorial Addresses; Governor Bobby Jindal's Address to the Special Session on the Budget. Boston, MA: Louisiana Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-17-34fn3t11