Collection
Louisiana Gubernatorial Addresses
Program
Governor Bobby Jindal's Address to the Special Session on the Budget
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
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Credits
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Producing Organization: Louisiana Public Broadcasting
AAPB Contributor Holdings
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