Bobby Jindal#Political positions

Jindal was born on June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to immigrant Indian Punjabi Hindu parents.{{cite news |last1=Gowen |first1=Annie |last2=Bridges |first2=Tyler |author-link2=Tyler Bridges |title=From Piyush to Bobby: How does Jindal feel about his family's past? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/from-piyush-to-bobby-how-does-jindal-feel-about-his-familys-past/2015/06/22/7d45a3da-18ec-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629225227/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/from-piyush-to-bobby-how-does-jindal-feel-about-his-familys-past/2015/06/22/7d45a3da-18ec-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html |archive-date=June 29, 2015 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en |date=23 June 2015}}{{cbignore}} He is the first of two sons of Raj (née Gupta) and Amar Jindal, from Punjab, India. His father is a civil engineer and graduate of Guru Nanak Dev University{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031118/punjab1.htm#6|title=Bobby Jindal down but not out, say kin|work=The Tribune (India)|location=Chandigarh, India|date=November 18, 2003|access-date=August 7, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008-2?src=del|title=Bobby Jindal Biography – Who Is Republican Governor Bobby Jindal?|work=Esquire|date=February 24, 2009|access-date=August 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711050142/http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008-2?src=del|archive-date=July 11, 2012|df=mdy-all}} and Punjab University.{{cite news|last=Sebastian|first=Michael|url=http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4952/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008|title=Bobby Jindal Biography - Who Is Republican Governor Bobby Jindal?|work=Esquire|date=June 25, 2015|access-date=November 16, 2015}} His mother is a graduate of Rajasthan University and worked in nuclear physics at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. Before migrating to the United States, both of his parents were lecturers at an Indian engineering college.{{cite news|url=http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008|title=Bobby Jindal Biography – Who Is Republican Governor Bobby Jindal?|work=Esquire|date=February 24, 2009|access-date=August 7, 2012}}

At the time of their move to the U.S., Raj Jindal was to be a doctoral candidate in physics. They left Malerkotla, Punjab{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/why-a-malerkotla-village-is-looking-forwards-to-greeting-president-bobby-jindal/|title=Why a Malerkotla village is looking forward to greet 'President' Bobby Jindal|date=June 25, 2015}}{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/nri-achievers/Bobby-Jindals-only-connection-to-Punjab-an-electricity-bill/articleshow/47857668.cms|title=Bobby Jindal's only connection to Punjab — an electricity bill! - Times of India ►|website=The Times of India|date=June 29, 2015 }} in January 1971, six months before their son was born.{{cite news |access-date=February 27, 2015 |last=Nossiter |first=Adam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/world/americas/22iht-22louisiana.7991675.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822031600/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/world/americas/22iht-22louisiana.7991675.html |archive-date=August 22, 2015 |title=In a Southern U.S. state, immigrants' son takes over |work=The New York Times |date=October 22, 2007}}{{cbignore}} Jindal's paternal grandfather was a merchant from Khanpur, Samrala and his maternal grandfather was a Ferozepur banker.{{cite web|url=http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/12/a_passage_from_india.html|title=A Passage from India|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=December 29, 2007|access-date=September 22, 2015|archive-date=September 9, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909203607/http://blog.nola.com/updates/2007/12/a_passage_from_india.html|url-status=dead}}

The family settled near Louisiana State University. Jindal attended Baton Rouge Magnet High School, graduating in 1988. While in high school, he competed in tennis tournaments, started various enterprises such as a computer newsletter, retail candy business, and a mail-order software company. He spent free time working in the stands at LSU football games.

Jindal graduated from Brown University in 1992 at the age of 20, with honors in two majors: biology and public policy.Sager, Mike (February 24, 2009), [http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008-3 "Bobby Jindal, All American"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414215516/http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008-3 |date=April 14, 2009 }}, Esquire.com; accessed July 27, 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.bobbyjindal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemid=92|title=Governor Bobby Jindal|access-date=September 26, 2014}}

Jindal was admitted to the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME), guaranteeing him a place at Brown Medical School. He did not pursue his Medical Doctorate. Jindal has been credited with leading Brown University's College Republicans student group.{{cite news|last=Sager|first=Mike|url=http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4952/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008|title=Bobby Jindal, All American|work=Esquire|date=June 25, 2015|access-date=September 21, 2015}}

Jindal was named to the 1992 USA Today All-USA Academic Team. He applied to and was accepted by both Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, but studied as a Rhodes Scholar where he received an MLitt in political science with an emphasis in health policy from New College, Oxford in 1994. The subject of his thesis was "A needs-based approach to health care".

After completing his studies at Oxford, Jindal turned down an offer to study for a D.Phil. in politics, instead joining the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.{{cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bobby-jindal.html|title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Bobby Jindal|work=U.S. News & World Report|first=Jill|last=Konieczko|date=May 22, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623072857/http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bobby-jindal.html|archive-date=June 23, 2010}} He then interned in the office of Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana, where McCrery assigned him to work on healthcare policy; Jindal spent two weeks studying Medicare to compile an extensive report on possible solutions to Medicare's financial problems, which he presented to McCrery.{{cite web|last=Harder|first=Amy|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/almanac/2010/person/bobby-jindal-la|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111120615/http://www.nationaljournal.com/almanac/2010/person/bobby-jindal-la/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 11, 2012|title=Gov. Bobby Jindal (R)|work=Nationaljournal.com|access-date=July 19, 2013}}

In 1993, McCrery introduced Jindal to Governor Mike Foster. In 1996, Foster appointed Jindal as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, an agency that represented about 40 percent of the state budget and employed over 12,000 people. Foster called Jindal a genius who had a great deal of medical knowledge.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB47801EBF0A17C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=NewsLibrary Search Results|access-date=July 19, 2013}} Jindal was 24 at the time.{{cite news|title=Bobby Jindal|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/bobby_jindal/index.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 23, 2012|first=Shaila|last=Dewan}}

During his tenure, Louisiana's Medicaid program went from bankruptcy with a $400 million deficit into three years of surpluses totaling $220 million.{{Cite web|url=http://www.zimbio.com/Congressman+Bobby+Jindal/articles/15/Rush+Limbaugh+defends+Bobby+Jindal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707231810/http://www.zimbio.com/Congressman%2BBobby%2BJindal/articles/15/Rush%2BLimbaugh%2Bdefends%2BBobby%2BJindal|url-status=dead|title=Rush Limbaugh defends Bobby Jindal – Congressman Bobby Jindal – Zimbio|archive-date=July 7, 2010}}

Jindal was criticized during the 2007 campaign by the Louisiana AFL–CIO for closing some local clinics to reach that surplus.{{cite news|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070919/NEWS01/709190323/1002/NEWS17|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104222609/http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070919/NEWS01/709190323/1002/NEWS17|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 4, 2013|title=Governor's race becomes a labor vs. business battle|author=Hasten, Mike|date=September 19, 2007|work=The Town Talk|location=Alexandria, LA}} Under Jindal's term, Louisiana nationally rose to third place in child healthcare screenings, with child immunizations rising, and introduced new and expanded services for the elderly and the disabled.{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&navID=38&cpID=1&catID=0|title=Governor Bobby Jindal | State of Louisiana|publisher=Gov.state.la.us|access-date=August 7, 2012}}

In 1998, Jindal was appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, a 17-member panel charged with devising plans to reform Medicare. In 1999, at the request of the Louisiana governor's office and the Louisiana State Legislature, Jindal examined how Louisiana might use its $4.4 billion share of the tobacco settlement.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

In 1998, Jindal received the Samuel S. Beard Award for greatest public service by an individual 35 years old or under, an award given annually by Jefferson Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national|title=National Winners | public service awards|publisher=Jefferson Awards.org|access-date=August 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124043935/http://jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national|archive-date=November 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}

At 28 years of age in 1999, Jindal was appointed to become the youngest-ever president of the University of Louisiana System, the nation's 16th largest system of higher education with over 80,000 students.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008-4|title=Bobby Jindal Biography – Who Is Republican Governor Bobby Jindal?|magazine=Esquire|date=February 24, 2009|access-date=August 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021075142/http://www.esquire.com/features/bobby-jindal-all-american-1008-4|archive-date=October 21, 2012|df=mdy-all}}

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In March 2001, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation.{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/aspe.hhs.gov/jindal.htm |date=* |title=Biography of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation }}, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, c. 2001. Retrieved October 25, 2007. He was later unanimously confirmed by a vote of the United States Senate and began serving on July 9, 2001. In that position, he served as the principal policy adviser to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.{{cite web|url=http://www.bobbyjindal.com/bobby/bobby_experience.aspx|title=Bobby's Experience|work=About Bobby|publisher=bobbyjindal.com|year=2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071122190622/http://www.bobbyjindal.com/bobby/bobby_experience.aspx|archive-date=November 22, 2007}} He resigned from that post on February 21, 2003, to return to Louisiana and run for governor.{{cite press release|access-date=October 25, 2007 |url=https://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2003pres/20030213b.html |title=Bobby Jindal announces he is stepping down as HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation|date=February 13, 2003|publisher=United States Department of Health and Human Services|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927145658/http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2003pres/20030213b.html|archive-date=September 27, 2006}} He was assigned to help fight the nurse shortage by examining steps to improve nursing education.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hRtOAAAAIBAJ&pg=4994,6382114&dq=bobby+jindal&hl=en|title=The Deseret News|access-date=July 19, 2013}}

Jindal came to national prominence during the 2003 election for governor of Louisiana. In what Louisianans call an "open primary" (but which is technically a nonpartisan blanket primary), Jindal finished first with 33 percent of the vote. He received endorsements from the largest paper in Louisiana, the Times-Picayune; the newly elected Democratic mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin; and the outgoing Republican governor, Mike Foster.{{cite book|last1=Cowan, McGuire|first1=Walter Greaves, Jack B.|title=Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers|date=2010|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|page=293|isbn=9781604733204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-0-kmu4vk0C&q=mike+foster+endorse+jindal+2003&pg=PA293|access-date=September 21, 2015}}

In the second balloting, Jindal faced the outgoing lieutenant governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette, a Democrat. Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally conservative parishes in north Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Some political analysts blamed Jindal's loss for his refusal to answer questions targeted at his religion and ethnic background brought up in several Democratic advertisements,{{cite news|title=Jindal counters Demo attacks; Rapid response to ads reflects shift in tactics|date=August 16, 2007 |author=Moller, Jan |work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|location=New Orleans, LA|url=http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1187248123127760.xml&coll=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104110125/http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1187248123127760.xml&coll=1|archive-date=January 4, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=53061|title=News Features|publisher=Catholic Culture|date=August 22, 2007|access-date=August 7, 2012}} which the Jindal campaign called "negative attack ads." Despite losing the election in 2003, the run for governor made Jindal a well-known figure on the state's political scene and a rising star within the Republican Party.

{{See also|2004 United States House of Representatives elections#Louisiana }}

A few weeks after the 2003 gubernatorial runoff, Jindal decided to run for Louisiana's 1st congressional district. The incumbent, David Vitter, was running for the Senate seat being vacated by John Breaux. The Louisiana Republican Party endorsed him in the primary although Mike Rogers, also a Republican, was running for the same seat. The 1st District has been in Republican hands since a 1977 special election and is widely considered to be staunchly conservative.{{cite news|access-date=October 18, 2008|url=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/06/two-louisiana-congressional-districts-primed-for-may-3-general-election|title=Two Louisiana Congressional Districts Primed for May 3 General Election|agency=Associated Press |date=April 6, 2008|publisher=Fox News|quote=In the 1st Congressional District....the staunchly conservative district....}} Jindal's campaign was able to raise over $1 million very early in the campaign, making it harder for other candidates to effectively raise funds to oppose him. He won the 2004 election with 78 percent of the vote.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Jindal was only the second Indian-American to be elected to the United States Congress, after Dalip Singh Saund was elected in November 1955.{{cite news|title=Hindu-American Tulsi Gabbard wins Democratic primary in Hawaii|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/hindu-american-tulsi-gabbard-wins-democratic-primary-in-hawaii/articleshow/15461834.cms|website=The Economic Times|access-date=December 10, 2016}}

{{See also|2006 United States House of Representatives elections#Louisiana}}

Jindal won re-election to a second term with 88% of the vote.

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He was the second Indian American elected to Congress.Gerard Shields, "New La. congressmen catching up fast", The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.), December 19, 2004. The first Indian-American elected to Congress was Dalip Singh Saund, a California Democrat, serving from 1957 to 1963. He has reportedly lived in Kenner,{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10975FCE31AFBCAC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=NewsLibrary Search Results |access-date=July 19, 2013}} Metairie, and Baton Rouge.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=NSRB&d_place=NSRB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FF47963192F2D0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=NewsLibrary.com – newspaper archive, clipping service – newspapers and other news sources |publisher=Nl.newsbank.com |date=February 22, 2006 |access-date=August 7, 2012}}

In 2005, Jindal criticized Bush's budget for not calling for enough spending cuts.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=108245AFC09C9165&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=NewsLibrary Search Results |access-date=July 19, 2013}} He warned of the growth of Medicaid saying "Congress may act without them...there seems to be growing momentum that the status quo is not defensible."{{cite web|last=Young |first=Jeffrey |url=https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/2318-congress-governors-look-for-medicaid-reforms-of-their-own/ |title=Congress, governors look for Medicaid reforms of their own – The Hill – covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill |work=The Hill |date=May 31, 2005 |access-date=August 7, 2012}} Jindal praised Bush's leadership on social security reform, saying "The administration has a lot more work to do to continue educating the American people about the very serious challenges facing Social Security."{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6902061|title=Curry: Bush charts course, with rocks ahead – politics – Tom Curry – NBC News.com |work=NBC News|date=February 3, 2005|access-date=August 7, 2012}}

In response to Hurricane Katrina, Jindal stated "If we had been investing resources in restoring our coast, it wouldn't have prevented the storm, but the barrier islands would have absorbed some of the tidal surge."[http://www.politico.com/gallery/2012/07/bobby-jindals-career/000279-003589.html Bobby Jindal's Career], politico.com, November 13, 2012.

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He was made vice-chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attacks. Jindal served as president of the incoming freshman class of congressmen, in 2004. He was elected to the position of House assistant majority whip, a senior leadership role. He served in this capacity from 2004 to 2006.

{{See also|2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election}}

On January 22, 2007, Jindal announced his candidacy for governor.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-4/116953841215500.xml&coll=1|title=Jindal quietly begins his run|author=Moller, Jan|date=January 23, 2007|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|location=New Orleans, LA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154939/http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-4%2F116953841215500.xml&coll=1|archive-date=September 30, 2007|df=mdy-all}} Polling data showed him with an early lead in the race, and he remained the favorite throughout the campaign. He defeated eleven opponents in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, including two prominent Democrats, State Senator Walter Boasso of Chalmette and Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell of Bossier City, and an independent, New Orleans businessman John Georges.

Jindal finished with 699,672 votes (54 percent). Boasso ran second with 226,364 votes (17 percent). Georges finished with 186,800 (14 percent), and Campbell, who is also a former state senator, ran fourth with 161,425 (12 percent). The remaining candidates collectively polled three percent of the vote.{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=102007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919002801/http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=102007|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-19|title=Official Election Results for Election Date October 20, 2007|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State}} This marked the first time that a non-incumbent candidate for governor was elected without a runoff under the Louisiana election system.[http://www.bobbyjindal.com/index.php/meet-bobby/leadership Governor Bobby Jindal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708084001/http://www.bobbyjindal.com/index.php/meet-bobby/leadership|date=July 8, 2011}}

As governor-elect, Jindal named a new ethics team, with Democratic Shreveport businesswoman Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee, the first woman to have served in the state senate, as the vice-chairman of the panel. Jindal assumed the position of governor when he took the oath of office on January 14, 2008. At thirty-six, he became the youngest sitting governor in the United States. He is also Louisiana's first non-white governor since P. B. S. Pinchback served for thirty-five days during Reconstruction, and the first non-white governor to be elected (Pinchback succeeded to the position of lieutenant governor on the death of Oscar Dunn, then to governor upon the impeachment of Henry Clay Warmoth).{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102000528.html|title=Jindal Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor|first=Peter|last=Whoriskey|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 21, 2007|page=A8|access-date=October 21, 2007}} Additionally, Jindal became the first Indian American to be elected governor of any state in the United States.{{cite news|title=1st Indian-American governor in U.S. vows 'fresh start' for La|author=Jan Moller|url=http://www.nola.com/elections/index.ssf/2007/10/1st_indianamerican_governor_in.html|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=October 21, 2007|access-date=March 24, 2012}}
{{cite book|title=Asian American chronology: chronologies of the American mosaic|last=Zhao|first=Xiaojian|year=2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313348754|page=147|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQPRCA9S9WAC&q=Fourth+Asian+American+governor+jindal&pg=PA124|access-date=March 24, 2012}} In a salute to the 2007 LSU Tigers football national championship team during his January 14, 2008, inauguration speech, Jindal stated in part "...They revere our athletes. Geaux Tigers...."{{cite web

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In 2008, Jindal was ranked one of the nation's most popular governors with an approval rating of 77%.[http://www.jenningsdailynews.net/arch_news.php?id=1137] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301131643/http://www.jenningsdailynews.net/arch_news.php?id=1137|date=March 1, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_20082/2008_senate_elections/louisiana/election_2008_louisiana_senate|title=Election 2008: Louisiana Senate|publisher=Rasmussen Reports|access-date=August 7, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://beta.lpb.org/index.php/publicsquare/lps_bio/edmonson_colonel_michael|title=Colonel Michael Edmonson|publisher=Louisiana Public Broadcasting|access-date=September 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114922/http://beta.lpb.org/index.php/publicsquare/lps_bio/edmonson_colonel_michael|archive-date=April 2, 2015|url-status=dead}}

Thereafter, Janice Clark, a state district court judge in Baton Rouge, declared that portion of the law enhancing the retirement benefits of Edmonson to be unconstitutional.{{cite news |author=Marsha Shuler |date=August 24, 2014 |title=Gov. Jindal favors repeal of Edmonson benefit law |newspaper=Baton Rouge Morning Advocate |url=http://theadvocate.com/home/10038115-123/jindal-favors-repeal-of-edmonson |access-date=September 17, 2014 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402185704/http://theadvocate.com/home/10038115-123/jindal-favors-repeal-of-edmonson |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/edmonson_act_declared_unconsti.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140917125857/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/edmonson_act_declared_unconsti.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 17, 2014|title='Edmonson Act' declared unconstitutional in state court|author=Cole Avery|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=September 16, 2014|access-date=September 17, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ethics.state.la.us/AgendaAttachments/2479/PublicAgendaAttachment.pdf|title=Order|date=July 29, 2009|publisher=ethics.state.la.us|access-date=December 26, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://ww.fed-soc.org/experts/detail/jimmy-r-faircloth|title=Jimmy R. Faircloth, Jr.|publisher=The Federalist Society|access-date=July 20, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722061633/http://ww.fed-soc.org/experts/detail/jimmy-r-faircloth|archive-date=July 22, 2015|df=mdy-all}}

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On June 27, 2008, Louisiana's Secretary of State confirmed that a recall petition had been filed against Jindal in response to Jindal's refusal to veto a bill that would have more than doubled the current state legislative pay. During his gubernatorial campaign, Jindal had pledged to prevent legislative pay raises that would take effect during the current term.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/recall_petition_filed_against.html|title=Recall petition filed against JindalRecall petition filed against Jindal|author=Scott, Robert Travis|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=June 27, 2008|quote=Ryan and Kourtney Fournier of Jefferson submitted paperwork to the Secretary of State's office that allows them to attempt to collect the nearly 1 million signatures needed over the next 180 days to force a recall election of the governor... He had pledged during his campaign last year to prohibit an immediate legislative pay raise.}}{{cite news|url=http://www.wjbo.com/cc-common/mlib/1178/06/1178_1213729996.pdf|title=Jindal Action Plan|publisher=available from WJBO-AM|access-date=June 28, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908003422/http://www.wjbo.com/cc-common/mlib/1178/06/1178_1213729996.pdf|archive-date=September 8, 2008|url-status=dead}}

Jindal responded by saying that he is opposed to the pay increase, but that he had pledged to let the legislature govern themselves.{{cite news|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/NEWS01/806180328/1001/NEWS|title=Gov. Jindal's veto refusal contradicts candidate Jindal's campaign pledge|work=The Daily Advertiser|date=June 18, 2008|quote='I am very sorry to see the Legislature do this,' he said. 'More than doubling legislative pay is not reasonable and the public has been clear on that... I will keep my pledge to let [the legislature] govern themselves and make their own decisions as a separate branch of government. I will not let anything, even this clearly excessive pay raise, stop us from moving forward with a clear plan of reform.'}}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

On June 30, 2008, Jindal reversed his earlier position by vetoing the pay raise legislation, stating that he made a mistake by staying out of the pay raise issue. In response, the petitioners dropped their recall effort.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/jindal_vetoes_legislative_rais.html|title=Jindal vetoes legislative raise |date=June 30, 2008|author=Anderson, Ed|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|quote=Gov. Bobby Jindal announced today that he has vetoed the legislative pay raise. After days of saying he would not reject the unpopular measure, Jindal said this morning that he had changed his mind. 'I thank the people for their voice and their attention,' Jindal said of the public outcry against the raise. 'I am going to need your help to move this state forward. ... The voters have demanded change... I made a mistake by staying out if it'.}}

Standard and Poor's raised Louisiana's bond rating and credit outlook from stable to positive in 2009. In announcing this change, the organization gave credit to the state's strong management and "commitment to streamlining its government functions."{{cite web|url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/63908172.html|title=State's bond rating upgraded again|publisher=2theadvocate.com|access-date=August 7, 2012}} Jindal met with President Barack Obama in October 2009 where the governor pushed for increased federal dollars to cover rising Medicaid costs, speeding the construction of hurricane-protection barriers, and financing the proposed Louisiana State University teaching hospital. During a town hall meeting, Obama praised Jindal as a "hard working man who is doing a good job" for the State, and expressed support for the governor's overhaul of the State's educational system in the area of increased charter schools.{{cite news| url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/10/68501045/1 | work=USA Today|access-date=April 26, 2010|title=Obama, live from New Orleans|date=October 15, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://epaper.americanpress.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QW1QLzIwMDkvMDEvMTEjQXIwMDUwMQ==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227160905/http://epaper.americanpress.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QW1QLzIwMDkvMDEvMTEjQXIwMDUwMQ%3D%3D&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 27, 2009|title=Jindal Becomes Mileage Champion|publisher=Lake Charles American Press|access-date=January 23, 2009}}

Jindal negotiated an agreement whereby Foster Farms, a private chicken processor, would receive $50 million in taxpayer funds to purchase a chicken processing plant owned by bankrupt Pilgrim's Pride.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Some claimed there is a conflict of interest in that Pilgrim's Pride founder Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim contributed $2500 to Jindal's campaign in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/deep-pockets/Content?oid=1255831|title=Deep Pockets – Gov. Bobby Jindal's top donors have access to power – and millions of dollars in state work.|work=Gambit|access-date=September 26, 2014|archive-date=July 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723053848/http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/deep-pockets/Content?oid=1255831|url-status=dead}} Other contributors to Jindal's campaign who benefited from economic development spending include Albemarle and Edison Chouest Offshore. Jindal however released a statement saying that this legislation saved over 1,000 jobs, serves as a stimulus to Louisiana's economy, and had wide bipartisan support.{{cite web|author=Highest Ranking – EVER|url=http://www.bobbyjindal.com/index.php/blog/Creating-and-Protecting-Jobs.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708083946/http://www.bobbyjindal.com/index.php/blog/Creating-and-Protecting-Jobs.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 8, 2011|title=Governor Bobby Jindal|publisher=Bobbyjindal.com|date=July 30, 2012|access-date=August 7, 2012}}

File:FEMA - 37939 - President Bush at the EOC in Louisiana.jpg George W. Bush and Jindal greeting EOC employees, during disaster recovery efforts for Hurricane Gustav, September 2008]]

Jindal oversaw one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history (nearly two million people) in late August 2008 prior to the Louisiana landfall of Hurricane Gustav.{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/nation/ny-usgust045828625sep04,0,1879653.story|title=Jindal and Nagin praised for response to Gustav |agency=Associated Press|date=September 4, 2008|work=Newsday }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He issued mandatory evacuation orders for the state's coastal areas and activated 3,000 National Guardsman to aid in the exodus. He also ordered the state to purchase generators to provide needed power to hospitals and nursing homes without power. Government officials vacated hospitals and nursing homes and put the poor, the ill, and the elderly on buses and trains out of town. The evacuation was credited as one reason that Gustav resulted in only 16 deaths in the U.S. The state's successful response to Hurricane Gustav was in stark contrast to the failed hurricane response system for Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jindal received bipartisan praise for his leadership during Gustav.{{cite news|url=http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/09/gustav_political_report_card_j.html|title=Gustav political report card: Jindal, Nagin lauded|first=Robert|last=Tanner|agency=Associated Press|date=September 3, 2008|work=The Plain Dealer}} Jindal had been scheduled to address the Republican National Convention, but cancelled his plans in order to focus on Louisiana's needs during the storm.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203049.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Jindal Presents A Face of Calm During the Storm; La. Governor Hailed for Recovery Efforts|first=Peter|last=Whoriskey|date=September 3, 2008|page=A06}}

{{See also|2011 Louisiana gubernatorial election}}

File:ObamaAllenJindalMay2010.jpg Barack Obama talks with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen in May 2010.]]

Jindal announced his intention to seek reelection in 2011. In the face of Jindal's high approval ratings and big amounts of campaign funds,{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-10-23/bobby-jindal-reelected/50875244/1|title=La. Gov. Bobby Jindal wins re-election|work=USA Today}} Democrats struggled to land a recruit of any substance.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-wins-reelection/2011/10/21/gIQArmP77L_blog.html|title=Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wins reelection|author=Aaron Blake|date=October 22, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post}} Running against four Democrats, a Libertarian and four independents in the jungle primary, Jindal received 66% of the vote in the blanket primary, thereby winning election in the first round.{{cite news |title=Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Re-Elected in a Landslide |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-re-elected-in-a-landslide/ |publisher=Fox News |date=October 22, 2011 |agency=Associated Press}}

In August 2011, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) awarded Jindal the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award for "outstanding public service".{{Cite web|title=ALEC Award Winners - SourceWatch|url=https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Award_Winners#cite_ref-13|access-date=2021-11-05|website=www.sourcewatch.org}}

On October 25, 2011, in preparing for his second term, Jindal tapped Republican state representative Chuck Kleckley of Lake Charles{{cite web|url=http://www.wwl.com/pages/10215886.php?poll103281ViewResults=1|title=Jindal to support Kleckley in speaker race|publisher=wwl.com|access-date=October 26, 2011}} and State Senator John Alario of Westwego as his choices for Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana Senate President, respectively. Both were confirmed by legislators. Alario is a long-term Democrat who switched parties prior to the 2011 elections.{{cite news|url= http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/10/gov_b0obby_jindal_endorses_wes.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111027172438/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/10/gov_b0obby_jindal_endorses_wes.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= October 27, 2011|author=Ed Anderson|title=Gov. Bobby Jindal endorses Sen. John Alario as his choice for Senate president|date=October 25, 2011|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|location=New Orleans|access-date=October 26, 2011}} In January 2012, Jindal elevated John C. White, the short-term superintendent at the Recovery School District in New Orleans, to the position of state superintendent of education.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/01/john_whites_appointment_as_lou.html|title=John White's appointment as Louisiana education superintendent assures continuity for reforms: An editorial, January 13, 2012|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|access-date=October 21, 2013}}

In August 2012, Jindal declared a statewide state of emergency due to the threat of subsidence and subsurface instability that threatens the lives and property of the citizens of the state.{{cite web|title=Proclamation No. 82 BJ 2012: State of Emergency – Threat of subsidence and subsurface instability|url=http://www.gov.state.la.us/assets/docs/82%20BJ%202012%20State%20of%20Emergency%20-%20Subsidence%20and%20Subsurface%20Instability.pdf|access-date=July 23, 2013}}

By the end of Jindal's second term, he saw a marked drop in his state popularity and problems such as a budget deficit and cuts to public expenditure.{{cite news|author1=V.V.B.|title=Bobby Jindal bows out|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/11/and-then-there-were-fourteen|access-date=November 19, 2015|newspaper=The Economist|date=November 18, 2015}} He could not stand for a third term because the governor of Louisiana is subject to term limits.{{cite web|url=http://senate.legis.state.la.us/documents/constitution/constitution.pdf|title=Louisiana Constitution of 1974|at=Article IV, section 3, paragraph B|quote=A person who has served as governor for more than one and one-half terms in two consecutive terms shall not be elected governor for the succeeding term.}}

In January 2013, Jindal released a plan that would eliminate the Louisiana state income tax, which he felt would expand business investment in the state, and then raise sales taxes in order to keep the plan revenue-neutral.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/01/gov_bobby_jindal_calls_for_eli.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616081752/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/01/gov_bobby_jindal_calls_for_eli.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2013|first=Jeff|last=Adelson|title=Gov. Bobby Jindal calls for elimination of all Louisiana income and corporate taxes|work=The Times-Picayune|date=January 10, 2013|access-date=April 12, 2013}} Self-styled taxpayer watchdog and former legislative aide C.B. Forgotston correctly predicted that Jindal's plan would fail to clear the legislature because of the higher sales taxes, the lack of needed support from Democrats, and the likelihood that the plan would not increase overall state revenues.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/louisianas-jindal-details-plan-end-states-income-tax-173706480.html |title=Louisiana's Jindal details plan to end state income tax", March 14, 2013 |publisher=Yahoo! News |access-date=April 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318175415/http://news.yahoo.com/louisianas-jindal-details-plan-end-states-income-tax-173706480.html |archive-date=March 18, 2013 }}

On April 8, 2013, the first day of the legislative session, Jindal dropped the plan after acknowledging some negative response to the plan from legislators and the public, but said he would still like the legislature to formulate its own plan that could end the state income tax.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/us/gov-bobby-jindal-shelves-tax-plan-in-louisiana.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130409&_r=0|first=Campbell|last=Robertson|title=A Governor Retrenches on a Big Idea|work=The New York Times|date=April 8, 2013|access-date=April 12, 2013}}

Jindal announced, in September 2014, a six-point energy platform that would, among other things, open up energy production on federal land and eliminated proposed carbon restrictions.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-jindal-energy-idUSKBN0HB28720140916|title=Louisiana Governor Jindal, likely White House contender, touts energy plan|date=September 16, 2014|newspaper=Reuters}}

In 2017, Jindal took a position as an operating adviser for Ares Management, a global investment firm based in Los Angeles.[https://www.businessreport.com/article/jindal-takes-new-role-ares-management Where’s Bobby Jindal now? In global investments] Greater Baton Rouge Business Report. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

In September 2022, telehealth company LifeMD (NASDAQ:LFMD) named Jindal to its board of directors.{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Noah |title=LifeMD adds former governor Bobby Jindal to board of directors |url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/lifemd-adds-former-governor-bobby-jindal-to-board-of-directors.html |website=Becker's Hospital Review|date=September 20, 2022 }}

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On February 8, 2008, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh mentioned on his syndicated show that Jindal could be a possible choice for the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2008. He said that Jindal might be perceived as an asset to John McCain's campaign because he has wide support in the conservative and moderate wings of the Republican Party. If McCain had won the presidency, he would have been the oldest president ever inaugurated to a first term.{{cite news |url=http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NATION/504804903/1001 |work=The Washington Times |title=Running mate guessing game begins |first=Joseph |last=Curl |date=February 12, 2008 |access-date=March 3, 2008}}

Heightening the speculation, McCain invited Jindal, Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and his former rivals Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee to meet at his home in Arizona on May 23, 2008, according to a Republican familiar with the decision; Romney, Huckabee, and Pawlenty, all of whom were already well acquainted with McCain, declined because of prior commitments.{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24762893|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512041220/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24762893/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2015|work=The New York Times |title=McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates|first=Adam |last=Nagourney |date=May 21, 2008|access-date=May 21, 2008}} The meeting may have served a different purpose, such as consideration of Jindal for the opportunity to speak at the 2008 Republican National Convention, in a similar fashion to Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, cementing a place for him in the party and opening the gate for a future run for the presidency.{{cite web|url=http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/05/what_about_jindal.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526205604/http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/05/what_about_jindal.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 26, 2008 |publisher=Real Clear Politics |title=What About Jindal? |first=Blake |last=Dvorak |date=May 22, 2008|access-date=May 22, 2008}} Speculation was fueled by simultaneous July 21, 2008, reports that McCain was making a sudden visit to Louisiana to confer again with Jindal and that McCain was readying to name his running mate within a week. However, on July 23, 2008, Jindal said that he would not be the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008.{{cite news|url=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/23/jindal-says-hes-not-interested-in-no-2-spot-with-mccain/|title=Jindal Says He's Not Interested in No. 2 Spot With McCain|work=Fox News|date=July 23, 2008|access-date=July 23, 2008|archive-date=July 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725020730/http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/23/jindal-says-hes-not-interested-in-no-2-spot-with-mccain/|url-status=dead}} Jindal added that he "never talked to the senator [McCain] about the vice presidency or his thoughts on selecting the vice president." Ultimately, on August 29, 2008, McCain chose then-Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate. While Jindal was given a prime-time speech slot at the party convention, he was not offered the keynote speech. During the presidential campaign, Jindal expressed admiration for both Senators McCain and Obama, and maintained that both have made positive contributions to the nation.{{cite web|url=http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/bobby_jindal_obama_greatest_sp.html |title=Bobby Jindal: Obama 'greatest' speaker: The Swamp |publisher=Swamppolitics.com |date=March 3, 2009 |access-date=August 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507171959/http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/bobby_jindal_obama_greatest_sp.html |archive-date=May 7, 2012 }}

On February 24, 2009, Jindal delivered the official Republican response to President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress. Jindal called the president's economic stimulus plan "irresponsible" and argued against government intervention.{{cite news|access-date=February 25, 2009|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022404300.html|title=In GOP Response, Jindal Blasts Stimulus | first=Perry Jr. |last=Bacon |date=February 25, 2009 |page=A08|newspaper=The Washington Post}} He used Hurricane Katrina to warn against government solutions to the economic crisis. "Today in Washington, some are promising that government will rescue us from the economic storms raging all around us," Jindal said. "Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts." He praised the late sheriff Harry Lee for standing up to the government during Katrina.{{cite news|access-date=February 25, 2009|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24jindal-text.html?pagewanted=all|title=Transcript – The Republican Response by Gov. Bobby Jindal|work=The New York Times |date=February 24, 2009}}{{cite news |access-date=February 25, 2009|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/jindal.volcanoes/?iref=mpstoryview|title=Gov. Bobby Jindal's volcano remark has some fuming|publisher=CNN|date=February 25, 2009}}

The speech met with biting reviews from some members of both the Democratic and the Republican parties. Referring to Jindal as "devoid of substantive ideas for governing the country", political commentator Rachel Maddow summarized Jindal's Katrina remark as follows: "[Jindal states that] since government failed during Hurricane Katrina, we should understand, not that government should not be allowed to fail again, but that government...never works. That government can't work, and therefore we should stop seeking a functioning government."The Rachel Maddow Show on msnbc.com. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090526094755/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#29379686 "Rachel Re:Sponse"]. David Johnson, a Republican political strategist criticized Jindal's mention of Hurricane Katrina, stating "The one thing Republicans want to forget is Katrina."{{cite news |access-date=February 26, 2009 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6959091 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626102055/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6959091 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |title=Republicans, Democrats criticize Jindal's speech |first=Beth |last=Fouhy |agency=Associated Press |date=February 25, 2009 |df=mdy-all }} While Jindal's speech was poorly received by several Democratic and Republican critics, others argued that the speech should be judged on substance rather than delivery style.{{cite news|access-date=February 25, 2009|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKyeCP.LGe5s&refer=home|title=Jindal's Response to Obama Address Panned by Fellow Republicans|first=Heidi |last=Przybyla|publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |date=February 25, 2009}}{{cite news|access-date=February 25, 2009|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/jindal.reaction/?iref=mpstoryview|title=Jindal earns bad reviews in national debut|publisher=CNN |date=February 25, 2009 |first=Alexander |last=Mooney}}

Jindal's story of meeting Lee in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was questioned following the speech, as Jindal was not in New Orleans at the time.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/02/27/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4834777.shtml|work=CBS News|title=Was Jindal's Katrina Story Accurate?|first=Brian|last=Montopoli|date=February 27, 2009}} On February 27, 2009, a spokesman for Jindal clarified the timing of the meeting, stating that the story took place days after the storm.{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Ben|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Jindal_aide_Story_was_set_after_Katrina.html?showall|title=Jindal aides clarify Katrina story – Ben Smith|publisher=Politico|date=February 27, 2009|access-date=August 7, 2012}} The opportunity to give the response to President Obama's speech was compared by some commentators to winning "second prize in a beauty contest", a reference to the board game Monopoly.{{cite web|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/0211/one-night-only-barack-obama-vs-bobby-jindal|title=One night only Barack Obama vs. Bobby Jindal|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=February 11, 2009}}

File:U.S. Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal speaking at the 2011 Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.jpg]]

Jindal had been mentioned as a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election. On December 10, 2008, Jindal indicated that he would likely not run for president in 2012, saying he will focus on his re-election in 2011 and that this would make transitioning to a national campaign difficult, though he did not rule out a possible 2012 presidential bid.{{cite web |author=Ben Smith |date=December 10, 2008 |title=Jindal says no |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Jindal_says_no.html?showall |access-date=2023-03-31 |publisher=Politico}}

Speculation increased when Republicans chose Jindal to deliver the response to President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress.{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/usPoliticsNews/idUKTRE51I42K20090219|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104215849/http://uk.reuters.com/article/usPoliticsNews/idUKTRE51I42K20090219|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 4, 2013|title=Republicans tap Louisiana governor for big speech|date=February 19, 2009|first=Chris|last=Baltimore|work=Reuters}}

The Jindal for President Draft Council Inc. PAC was formed in 2009 to raise funds for a future presidential run. Jindal has stated that he has no involvement with the PAC.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} In April 2010, while speaking at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Jindal ruled out running for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35621_Page3.html|title=For GOP, no frontrunner and no worries|access-date=September 24, 2015|last1=Martin|first1=Jonathan|last2=Smith|first2=Ben|date=April 11, 2010|publisher=Politico}}

In 2012, Jindal traveled across the country in support of the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket. Because Louisiana and other Deep South states voted heavily for the GOP, Jindal could hence devote his campaign time elsewhere. In August 2012, Politico reported that "Bobby Jindal would be considered [for] and would likely take" appointment as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in a potential Romney cabinet.[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80233.html "Who's on the inside track for a Romney Cabinet"], politico.com, August 28, 2012.

After the defeat of Romney-Ryan, Jindal called for his party to return to "the basics... If we want people to like us, we have to like them first," he said on the interview program Fox News Sunday."Governor: Liking people key to enlarging GOP base", Laredo Morning Times, November 19, 2012, p. 6A As the incoming president of the Republican Governors Association, which had thirty members in 2013, Jindal questioned Romney for having criticized President Obama as having provided "extraordinary financial gifts from the government". In reply to Romney, Jindal said, "You don't start to like people by insulting them and saying their votes were bought." Jindal said that his party must convince a majority of voters that it supports the middle class and the principle of upward mobility. He also criticized what he termed "stupid" remarks regarding rape and conception made in 2012 by defeated Republican U.S. Senate nominees Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana.

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In November 2012, after the election, Jindal was featured in a Time magazine article titled "2016: Let's Get The Party Started", where he was listed as a possible Republican candidate for the presidency in 2016. The article cited his fiscal and social conservative policies and his Indian American background, which would bring diversity to the GOP.{{citation|title=2016: Let's Get The Party Started|pages=118–31|magazine=Time|date=November 19, 2012}}

In 2013, with polls showing Jindal's approval ratings in Louisiana falling significantly,{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/bobby-jindal-approval-rating-89559.html|title=Poll: Bobby Jindal approval rating plummets – Breanna Edwards|work=Politico|date=April 3, 2013|access-date=August 20, 2014}} some analysts wrote off Jindal as a serious national contender,{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2013/07/gov_jindal_was_never_going_to.html|title=Bobby Jindal doesn't have a shot at becoming president: Robert Mann|newspaper=NOLA.com|date=July 14, 2013|access-date=August 20, 2014}} though others pointed to Romney as an example of someone who still won the Presidential nomination despite poor approval ratings from his home state.{{cite news|url=http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/with-popularity-fading-at-home-is-jindal-the-new-romney|work=The New York Times|first=Nate|last=Silver|title=With Popularity Fading at Home, Is Jindal the New Romney?|date=April 9, 2013}} In October 2013, Jindal told Fox News Sunday that he was still mulling a 2016 presidential run.{{cite news|title=Jindal: 'I don't know' about 2016 |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/10/jindal-i-dont-know-about-176001.html|first=Caitlin|last=Emma|work=Politico|date=October 27, 2013|access-date=October 28, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030064416/http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/10/jindal-i-dont-know-about-176001.html|archive-date=October 30, 2013}}

On May 18, 2015, Jindal formed a presidential exploratory committee to determine whether he would run as a candidate in the 2016 presidential election,{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/governor-bobby-jindal-forms-2016-exploratory-committee-n360696|title=Governor Bobby Jindal Forms 2016 Exploratory Committee|work=NBC News|date=May 18, 2015|access-date=May 20, 2015|author=Hunt, Kasie}} and he announced his candidacy on June 24.{{cite web|url=http://www.bobbyjindal.com/announcement/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626110206/http://www.bobbyjindal.com/announcement|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 26, 2015|title=A Special Announcement From Bobby Jindal|publisher=BobbyJindal.com|access-date=June 25, 2015}}

As of early September, Jindal was polling at 1 percent among the Republican primary electorate.{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bobby-jindal-calls-trump-unstable-narcissist-n425071|title=Bobby Jindal Calls Trump An Unstable Narcissist|first=Andrew|last=Rafferty|work=NBC News|date=September 10, 2015}} On November 17, 2015, Jindal appeared on Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel, announcing that he was ending his run for president, saying "I've come to the realization that this is not my time."{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/17/politics/bobby-jindal-announces-he-is-ending-presidential-campaign/index.html |title=Bobby Jindal announces he is ending presidential campaign |author1=Tom LoBianco |author2=Jeff Zeleny |date=November 17, 2015 |publisher=CNN}}

During his campaign, Jindal called Donald Trump a "narcissist" and an "egomaniacal madman", but afterward said that he would support Trump because "electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration's radical policies."{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/where-republicans-stand-on-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet/481449|title=Where Republicans Stand on Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet|work=The Atlantic|date=August 5, 2016}}

File:Bobby Jindal by Gage Skidmore 4.jpg (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland on February 26, 2015]]

Jindal has a strongly anti-abortion voting record according to the National Right to Life Committee.{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Bobby_Jindal_Abortion.htm|title=Bobby Jindal on Abortion|publisher=On the Issues|date=September 16, 2008}} He opposes abortion in general, but does not condemn medical procedures aimed at saving the life of the mother that indirectly result in the loss of the unborn child, such as salpingectomy for an ectopic pregnancy.{{cite news|author1=Sentell, Will |author2=Dyer, Scott |name-list-style=amp|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FEC6C97E8FB05E0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Abortion flier offends Jindal |work=The Advocate|location=Baton Rouge, LA|date=November 11, 2003|quote=He said he does not condemn medical procedures aimed at saving the life of the mother that result indirectly in the loss of the unborn child as a secondary effect.}}{{cite web|url=http://capitolwatch.reallouisiana.com/html/BC4983D2-AC99-421E-83DC-00FD0707A94D.shtml |work=Capitol Watch: Your Guide to Louisiana State Government |title=Gubernatorial candidates to meet today in final TV debate |author=John Hill |date=November 12, 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630063526/http://capitolwatch.reallouisiana.com/html/BC4983D2-AC99-421E-83DC-00FD0707A94D.shtml |archive-date=June 30, 2008 }}Walls, Seth Colter, [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/22/who-is-bobby-jindal-the-g_n_103045.html "Who Is Bobby Jindal? The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly"], The Huffington Post, May 30, 2008{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901777.html|title=GOP Looks to Louisiana's Governor|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 26, 2014}}Romano, Andrew, [http://www.newsweek.com/id/174518 "Their Own Obama"], Newsweek, December 22, 2008.

In 2003, Jindal stated that he did not object to the use of emergency contraception in the case of rape if the victim requests it. While in the House of Representatives, he supported two bills to prohibit transporting minors across state lines to obtain an abortion; the bills aimed to prevent doctors and others from helping a minor avoid parental notification laws in their home state by procuring an abortion in another state. He opposed and voted against expanding public funding of embryonic stem cell research.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/report_mccain_to_meet_with_jin.html|author1=Alpert, Bruce|author2=Jan Moller|name-list-style=amp|title=Jindal to meet Friday with McCain|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|date=May 21, 2008|quote=Jindal is seen as solid on conservative social issues such as opposition to abortion and embryonic stem cell research.}}

Jindal opposed the legalization of both same-sex marriage and civil unions. In Congress, he voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment to restrict marriage to a union between one man and one woman. He also voted against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Bobby_Jindal_Civil_Rights.htm|title=Bobby Jindal on Civil Rights|publisher=OntheIssues.org}} In December 2008, Jindal announced the formation of the Louisiana Commission on Marriage and Family.[http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Government/Louisiana_Gov._Jindal_Picks_Louisiana_Commission_on_Marriage_and_Family__7840.asp Louisiana Gov. Jindal picks Louisiana Commission on Marriage and Family] on BayouBuzz.com. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307190004/http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Government/Louisiana_Gov._Jindal_Picks_Louisiana_Commission_on_Marriage_and_Family__7840.asp|date=March 7, 2009}}

Following the 2013 Supreme Court's rulings on DOMA and Proposition 8, he said: "I believe every child deserves a mom and a dad. This opinion leaves the matter of marriage to the states where people can decide. In Louisiana, we will opt for traditional marriage. How about we let the people decide for themselves, via their representatives and via referendum?"{{cite news|agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.yahoo.com/gop-hopefuls-immigration-gay-marriage-080637140.html|title=GOP hopefuls on immigration, gay marriage|work=Yahoo! News|date=July 2, 2013|access-date=July 19, 2013}}

In May 2015, the legislature killed the measure. Four Republican members, Pete Huval of Breaux Bridge, Gregory A. Miller of Norco, Clay Schexnayder of Gonzales, and Nancy Landry of Lafayette, joined Democrats in killing the bill. Jindal responded by issuing Executive Order BJ-2015-8, (the "Marriage and Conscience Order"), which attempted to achieve the goals of the failed legislation.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/bobby-jindal-hb-707-and-the-2016-presidential-race/393833|title=What Will Bobby Jindal's 'Marriage and Conscience Order' Actually Do?|work=The Atlantic|access-date=May 21, 2015|author=Epps, Garrett|date=May 21, 2015}} Johnson said he intended to re-introduce the measure in 2016.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/louisianas_religious_freedom_b.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521175816/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/05/louisianas_religious_freedom_b.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 21, 2015|title=Louisiana's religious freedom bill effectively defeated in committee|author=Emily Lane|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|access-date=May 19, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Bobby Jindal gives his take on gay marriage in New York Times editorial |url=http://theadvocate.com/features/realestate/12184896-70/bobby-jindal-im-holding-firm |access-date=April 23, 2015 |work=The New York Times |archive-date=May 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521081035/http://theadvocate.com/features/realestate/12184896-70/bobby-jindal-im-holding-firm |url-status=dead }}

He vetoed state legislation to increase pay for state legislators.{{cite news|author=Morris, Tim|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune |url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/jindal_vetoes_legislative_rais.html |title=Jindal vetoes legislative raise |date=June 30, 2008|access-date=August 7, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Bobby_Jindal.htm |title=Bobby Jindal on the Issues |publisher=Ontheissues.org |date=March 14, 2012 |access-date=August 7, 2012}} However, the Louisiana governor's office was ranked last for transparency in the United States both prior, and subsequent, to Jindal's election, as reported by the WDSU I-Team. At least two legislators, state representatives Walker Hines and Neil Abramson, argued that this may be attributed to legislation that removed the governor's records from the public domain; they argued that the legislation was surreptitiously inserted as a last-minute amendment into an education bill by Jindal's office on the last day of the 2008 session, providing no time to properly review it before it passed the legislature and was signed into law by Jindal.{{cite news|url=http://www.wdsu.com/news/16828329/detail.html |title=I-Team: Governor's Office Ranks Last In Transparency |publisher=WDSU |location=New Orleans |date=July 9, 2008 |access-date=August 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224083924/http://www.wdsu.com/news/16828329/detail.html |archive-date=February 24, 2012 }}{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/bobby_jindal_makes_ethics_exce.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150422190129/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/bobby_jindal_makes_ethics_exce.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 22, 2015|title=Bobby Jindal allows state ethics exception for former Louisiana legislator|date=May 31, 2014|newspaper=New Orleans Times-Picayune|access-date=April 22, 2015}}

Jindal is a fervent supporter of the Second Amendment and generally opposes gun control. He has been endorsed by the NRA Political Victory Fund{{cite web |title=NRA-PVF Endorses Congressman Bobby Jindal For Governor of Louisiana |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/articles/20070720/nra-pvf-endorses-congressman-bobby-jindal-for-governor-of-louisiana |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |access-date=11 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812202140/https://www.nrapvf.org/articles/20070720/nra-pvf-endorses-congressman-bobby-jindal-for-governor-of-louisiana |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |language=en-US |date=July 20, 2007 |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mixx.com/stories/6467968/louisiana_governor_bobby_jindal_speaks_at_the_nra_annual_meetings |title=Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Speaks at the NRA Annual Meetings |publisher=Mixx |access-date=August 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803000714/http://www.mixx.com/stories/6467968/louisiana_governor_bobby_jindal_speaks_at_the_nra_annual_meetings |archive-date=August 3, 2009 }} and received an A rating from Gun Owners of America while he was in Congress.{{cite web|url=http://www.gunowners.org/109hrat.htm|archive-date=January 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122040555/http://www.gunowners.org/109hrat.htm|title=GOA House Ratings for the 109th Congress |publisher=GunOwners.org|date=October 2006}}

As a Congressman, he sponsored the Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006 with Senator Vitter.

In July 2015, during an interview with CBS, Jindal stated that he supported stricter background checks, and that every state should begin to enact tougher background checks on gun buyers.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/bobby-jindal-gun-control/399683/ |title=Bobby Jindal Calls for Better Mental-Health Reporting to National Background Check System |work=The Atlantic |date=July 27, 2015 |access-date=November 16, 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/us/politics/bobby-jindal-calls-for-states-to-follow-louisianas-example-in-toughening-gun-laws.html|title=Bobby Jindal Calls for States to Follow Louisiana's Example in Toughening Gun Laws|first=Ashley|last=Southall|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 26, 2015}}

As a private citizen, Jindal voted in 2002 for the Louisiana constitutional amendment known as the Stelly Plan{{cite web|title=The Weekly's inside political track....|author=Tidmore, Christopher |date=May 24, 2004|url=http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20040524p|work=Louisiana Weekly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017040235/http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20040524p|archive-date=October 17, 2006}} which lowered some sales taxes in exchange for higher income taxes. After taking office, Jindal cut taxes a total of six times, including the largest income tax cut in Louisiana's history – a cut of $1.1 billion over five years, along with accelerating the elimination of the tax on business investments.{{cite news|url=http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8521558&nav=menu57_1|publisher=WAFB Channel 9|location=Baton Rouge, LA|title=Stelly tax ad causing controversy|author=Moses, Caroline|date=June 18, 2008|access-date=July 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623051904/http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8521558&nav=menu57_1|archive-date=June 23, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} In January 2013, Jindal said he wanted to eliminate all Louisiana corporate and personal income taxes, without giving details for his proposal.{{cite news |title=Louisiana Governor Jindal proposes ending state income tax |author=Kathy Finn |url=http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE90A02K20130111?irpc=932 |work=Reuters|date=January 10, 2013 |access-date=January 12, 2013}}

As U.S. Representative from Louisiana, Jindal received grades of B in 2005, B− in 2006, and C in 2007 from the National Taxpayers Union, a conservative taxpayers advocacy organization.{{Citation|url=http://www.ntu.org/state/legislator/bobby-jindal|title=National Taxpayers Union - Bobby Jindal|publisher=National Taxpayers Union|access-date=September 3, 2015}} As Governor of Louisiana, Jindal received grades of A in 2010,{{cite web|last=Edwards|first=Chris|work=Policy Analysis No. 668|publisher=Cato Institute|url=http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA668.pdf|title=Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2010|date=September 30, 2010|access-date=September 3, 2015}}{{cite web|last=Edwards|first=Chris|publisher=Cato Institute|url=http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors-2010|title=Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2010|date=September 30, 2010|access-date=September 3, 2015}} B in 2012,{{cite web|last=Edwards|first=Chris|publisher=Cato Institute|url=http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/GRC2012.pdf|title=Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors 2012|date=October 9, 2012|access-date=September 3, 2015}}{{cite web|last=Edwards|first=Chris|publisher=Cato Institute|url=http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors-2012|title=Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2012|date=October 9, 2012|access-date=September 3, 2015}} and B in 2014{{cite web|last1=Kaeding|first1=Nicole|last2=Edwards|first2=Chris|publisher=Cato Institute|url=http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/fprc-on-americas-governors_1.pdf|title=Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors 2014|date=October 2, 2014|access-date=September 3, 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Kaeding|first1=Nicole|last2=Edwards|first2=Chris|publisher=Cato Institute|url=http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors-2014|title=Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors 2014|date=October 2, 2014|access-date=September 3, 2015}} from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, in their biennial Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors.

In 2008, Jindal came out in favour of the Common Core State Standards Initiative,{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20130930/NEWS0401/309300002|title=Bobby Jindal questions Common Core while John White holds strong|last1=Nash-Wood|first1=Mary|date=September 29, 2013|publisher=shreveporttimes.com|access-date=October 26, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001144640/http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20130930/NEWS0401/309300002/|archive-date=October 1, 2013|df=mdy-all}} which Louisiana adopted in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.louisianabelieves.com/newsroom/news-releases/2013/10/16/bese-passes-policies-to-support-local-curriculum-control-and-student-privacy-in-common-core-transition|title=BESE Passes Policies to Support Local Curriculum Control and Student Privacy in Common Core Transition|date=October 16, 2013|publisher=louisianabelieves.com|access-date=October 29, 2013}}

In 2014, Jindal wrote that "It has become fashionable in the news media to believe there is a right-wing conspiracy against Common Core."{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/23/common-core-louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-editorials-debates/8071863|title=Gov. Jindal: Leave education to local control|last1=Jindal|first1=Bobby|date=April 23, 2014|work=USA Today|access-date=July 7, 2014}}

Jindal proposed budgets that impose cuts on higher education funding in Louisiana, leading to protests from students and education advocates.{{cite web|url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/blogs/politicsblog/107123234.html|title=Hundreds rally against higher education cuts|access-date=September 26, 2014|archive-date=November 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113235926/http://www.2theadvocate.com/blogs/politicsblog/107123234.html|url-status=dead}} Jindal proposed several controversial education reforms, including vouchers for low income students in public schools to attend private institutions using Minimum Foundation Program funds.{{cite news|author1=Ted Jackson|author2=New Orleans Times-Picayune|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/bobby_jindal_education_bills_w.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906123247/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/bobby_jindal_education_bills_w.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2012|title=Bobby Jindal education bills whisk through Louisiana Senate panel|newspaper=NOLA.com|access-date=August 7, 2012}}

The legislation also included controversial changes in teacher evaluations, tenure and pensions. Hundreds of teachers, administrators and public education supporters protested against the legislation at the capital of Louisiana,{{cite web|publisher=MSNBC|url=http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/14/10685511-teacher-protest-closes-schools-in-louisiana|title=Teacher protest closes schools in Louisiana|access-date=August 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519025916/http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/14/10685511-teacher-protest-closes-schools-in-louisiana|archive-date=May 19, 2012|df=mdy-all}} some of whom cancelled classes to attend demonstrations. Many participants circulated petitions to recall Jindal and Republican House Speaker Chuck Kleckley.Wolfgang, Ben (April 3, 2012). [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/3/some-louisiana-teachers-look-to-expel-governor "Some Louisiana teachers look to expel governor"], The Washington Times; accessed July 27, 2017. In April 2012, a Louisiana Public Broadcasting program examined possible conflicts between aspects of the Jindal education reform plan and the federal desegregation orders still in place in many parts of Louisiana.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdpQli0NPk/| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211111/5JdpQli0NPk| archive-date=2021-11-11 | url-status=live|title=School Choice and Desegregation| date=April 26, 2012|publisher=YouTube|access-date=September 26, 2014}}{{cbignore}}

Jindal signed a law that permitted teachers at public schools to supplement standard evolutionary curricula with analysis and critiques that may include intelligent design.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1668433,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012055911/http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1668433,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 12, 2007|title=The Second Coming of Bobby Jindal|first=Russell|last=McCulley|date=October 4, 2007|magazine=Time}} The law provides that "[c]lassroom instruction and materials shall not promote any religious doctrine", but Louisiana ACLU Director Marjorie Esman said that that provision "is vague at best","The evidence at trial demonstrates that ID is nothing less than the progeny of creationism" (page 31) in "[http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf Judgement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051221144316/http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf|date=December 21, 2005}}" of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District and stated that the Act is "susceptible to a constitutional challenge."Esman, Marjorie.[https://www.laaclu.org/PDF_documents/BESE_comments_060809.pdf "ACLU Comments on Bulletin 741, § 2304"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101165753/https://www.laaclu.org/PDF_documents/BESE_comments_060809.pdf |date=January 1, 2011 }}, June 8, 2009 letter. Despite calls for a veto from John Derbyshire and some genetics professors at Brown University,{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/science_law_could_set_tone_for.html|title=Science law could set tone for Jindal|date=June 26, 2008|first=Bill|last=Barrow|work=The Times-Picayune|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731030454/http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/science_law_could_set_tone_for.html|archive-date=July 31, 2010}} Jindal signed the Louisiana Academic Freedom Act which passed the voting in the State House and the State Senate in 2008.{{Cite web |date=2008-07-23 |title=Louisiana the Only State to Promote Academic Freedom (So Far) |url=https://www.icr.org/article/louisiana-only-state-promote-academic-freedom-so-f/ |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=www.icr.org |language=en}}

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology rejected New Orleans as a site for their 2010 meeting and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will not conduct future meetings in Louisiana.{{cite web|access-date=February 27, 2009|url=http://www.sicb.org/resources/LouisianaLetterJindal.pdf|first=Robert|last=Satterlie|title=Letter to Bobby Jindal|publisher=Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology|date=February 5, 2009|archive-date=February 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225033422/http://www.sicb.org/resources/LouisianaLetterJindal.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|access-date=February 27, 2009|url=http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1234938291272770.xml&coll=1|first=James|last=Gill|title=Mad scientists|date=February 18, 2009|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303173505/http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-0%2F1234938291272770.xml&coll=1|archive-date=March 3, 2009|df=mdy-all}}

File:Bobby Jindal Camp Beauregard 3.jpg on October 14, 2008. The document signing was an opportunity to join employers from across the country in supporting Soldiers]]

Jindal voted to extend the Patriot Act, voted in favor of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, supported a constitutional amendment banning flag burning,{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll296.xml|title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 296 |date=June 22, 2005|publisher=U.S. House of Representatives|quote=H J RES 10     2/3 YEA-AND-NAY .....QUESTION: On Passage ...BILL TITLE: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.}} and voted for the Real ID Act of 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=8224&can_id=35481|title=Key Votes: HR 418: Real ID Act of 2005 (Immigration)|date=February 10, 2005|publisher=VoteSmart.org}}{{cite web|url=http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2009/jun/11/senate-panel-rejects-cycle-helmet-repeal/|title=Senate Panel Rejects Cycle Helmet Repeal|publisher=Natchez Democrat|access-date=July 14, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211175925/http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2009/jun/11/senate-panel-rejects-cycle-helmet-repeal|archive-date=February 11, 2016}}

He criticized illegal immigration as a drain on the economy, as well as being unfair to those who entered the country by legal means. He voted to build a fence along the Mexican border and opposed granting amnesty for illegal immigrants.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24jindal-text.html|work=The New York Times|title=The Republican Response by Gov. Bobby Jindal|date=February 24, 2009|access-date=April 26, 2010}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/04/bobby-jindal-the-son-of-immigrants-and-new-champion-of-the-tough-on-immigrants-crowd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706171511/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/04/bobby-jindal-the-son-of-immigrants-and-new-champion-of-the-tough-on-immigrants-crowd/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 6, 2015|title=Bobby Jindal: The son of immigrants and new champion of the tough-on-immigrants crowd|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 4, 2015}}

Jindal refused to accept federal funds to expand Medicaid after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, costing his state $1.65 billion in federal health-care assistance for the poor.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/louisiana_residents_paying_for.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206174334/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/louisiana_residents_paying_for.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 6, 2013|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|title=Louisiana residents paying for health care they won't receive because state rejected Medicaid expansion, says new study | date=December 5, 2013}} He supported increased health insurance portability; laws promoting coverage of pre-existing medical conditions; a cap on malpractice lawsuits; an easing of restrictions on importation of prescription medications; the implementation of a streamlined electronic medical records system; an emphasis on preventative care rather than emergency room care; and tax benefits aimed at making health insurance more affordable for the uninsured and targeted to promote universal access. During Jindal tenure, over 11,000 uninsured children were added to the State's Children's Health Insurance Program. He also opposed a federal government-run, single-payer system, but supported state efforts to reduce the uninsured population.{{cite news | url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/governor-bobby-jindal-discusses-health-care-reform-he-wants-to-see | publisher=Fox News | title=Governor Bobby Jindal Discusses Health Care Reform He Wants to See | date=September 29, 2009 | access-date=October 26, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003000656/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,557283,00.html | archive-date=October 3, 2009 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }} He has also supported expanding services for autistic children, and promoted a national childhood cancer database. Due to a congressional reduction in federal Medicaid financing rates, the Jindal administration chose to levy the largest slice of cuts on the network of LSU charity hospitals and clinics, requiring some facilities to close.{{cite news |date=July 13, 2012 |title=LSU health care system takes brunt of Medicaid cut |publisher=WWTV |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.wwltv.com/news/LSU-health-care-system-takes-brunt-of-Medicaid-cut-162399466.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111223847/http://www.wwltv.com/news/LSU-health-care-system-takes-brunt-of-Medicaid-cut-162399466.html |archive-date=November 11, 2013 |quote=}}

File:Krotz-Springs-Jindal.jpg, during the 2011 flooding of the Mississippi River]]

Jindal issued an executive order increasing office recycling programs, reducing solid waste and promoting paperless practices, offering tax credit for hybrid fuel vehicles, increasing average fuel economy goals by 2010, as well as increasing energy efficiency goals and standards for the state.{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=home&navID=12&cpID=0&cfmID=0&catID=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131060933/http://www.gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=home&navID=12&cpID=0&cfmID=0&catID=2|title=News > Press Releases|publisher=Office of the Governor of Louisiana|archive-date=2008-01-31|accessdate=2022-12-10}} - Link to "[http://www.gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=49 Governor Bobby Jindal Announces Executive Order on Environmentally Friendly Government]" dead, but there is a record of the executive order. He has stated his opposition to and voted for the criminalization of oil cartels such as OPEC. As a representative in the House, he supported a $300-million bill to fund Louisiana coastal restoration. In addition, he was the chief sponsor of successful legislation to expand the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park by over {{convert|3000|acre|km2}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1229502721.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403184856/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1229502721.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 3, 2012 |title=House Committee Unanimously Approves Rep. Jindal Legislation To Expand Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve – Us Fed News Service, Including Us State News |access-date=August 7, 2012}} Jindal signed bill SB 469 that would limit actions aimed at oil and gas companies operating along the coast.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/06/06/bobby-jindal-signs-bill-to-block-lawsuits-against-oil-and-gas-companies |title=Bobby Jindal Signs Bill to Block Lawsuits Against Oil and Gas Companies - US News |author=Alan Neuhauser |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=June 25, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626132009/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/06/06/bobby-jindal-signs-bill-to-block-lawsuits-against-oil-and-gas-companies |archive-date=June 26, 2015 }}{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/bobby_jindal_signs_bill_to_kil.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141124231959/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/bobby_jindal_signs_bill_to_kil.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 24, 2014|title=Bobby Jindal signs bill to kill lawsuit against oil, gas companies|newspaper=NOLA.com|access-date=June 25, 2015}} Jindal pledged state support for the development of economically friendly cars in northeastern Louisiana in conjunction with alternative energy advocate T. Boone Pickens.{{cite web |author=Michelle Krebs |url=http://www.autoobserver.com/2009/06/miata-designer-matano-t-boone-pickens-part-of-start-up-car-company.html |title=Miata Designer Matano, T. Boone Pickens Part of Start-Up Car Company |work=Auto Observer |date=June 17, 2009 |access-date=August 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525065911/http://www.autoobserver.com/2009/06/miata-designer-matano-t-boone-pickens-part-of-start-up-car-company.html |archive-date=May 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} In September 2014, Jindal stated that global warming was more about increasing government regulation, and released an energy plan that was critical of the Obama Administration's policies.{{cite news|author=Alan Neuhauser |author2=Lauren Fox |title=Jindal Declares Climate Change a 'Trojan Horse' |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/16/louisianas-bobby-jindal-declares-climate-change-a-trojan-horse |newspaper=U.S. News & World Report |date=September 16, 2014 |access-date=December 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219132424/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/16/louisianas-bobby-jindal-declares-climate-change-a-trojan-horse |archive-date=December 19, 2014 }}

In 2007, Jindal led the Louisiana House delegation and ranked 14th among House members in requested earmark funding at nearly $97 million (however in over 99% of these requests, Jindal was a co-sponsor and not the primary initiator of the earmark legislation).{{cite web|url=http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/610|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711082715/http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/610|url-status=dead|title=Bobby Jindal's secret love affair with earmarks added up to more than…|date=July 11, 2012|archive-date=July 11, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.taxpayer.net/user_uploads/file/Database%20Docs/membernumbers.xls |title=Total Earmarks in FY08 Appropriations Bills, by Earmarks Received |format=MS Excel |publisher=Taxpayers for Common Sense |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081127235521/http://www.taxpayer.net/user_uploads/file/Database%20Docs/membernumbers.xls |archive-date=November 27, 2008 }} $5 million of Jindal's earmark requests were for state defense and indigent healthcare related expenditures, another $50 million was for increasing the safety of Louisiana's waterways and levees after breaches following Hurricane Katrina, and the remainder was targeted towards coastal restoration and alternative energy research.{{cite web|url=http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/earmarks.php?fy=FY08&cid=N00026786&cycle=2008 |title=Bobby Jindal: Campaign Finance/Money – Other Data – Earmarks 2008 |publisher=OpenSecrets |access-date=August 7, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://earmarkwatch.org/2008-house-defense/sponsor/295/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018201930/http://earmarkwatch.org/2008-house-defense/sponsor/295/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 18, 2007 |title=Bobby Jindal – House Defense Appropriations, FY2008 |publisher=EarmarkWatch.org |access-date=August 7, 2012 }} As governor, in 2008, Jindal used his line item veto to strike $16 million in earmarks from the state budget but declined to veto $30 million in legislator-added spending. Jindal vetoed over 250 earmarks in the 2008 state budget, twice the total number of such vetoes by previous governors in the preceding 12 years.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-11/121609935236570.xml&coll=1&thispage=2|title=Jindal hacks budget earmarks|author=Moller, Jan|date=July 15, 2008|work=New Orleans Times-Picayune|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106140949/http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-11%2F121609935236570.xml&coll=1&thispage=2|archive-date=January 6, 2009|df=mdy-all}}

File:U.S. Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal at the 2015 Defending the American Dream Summit at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio.jpg

Jindal has been an opponent of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Citing concerns that the augmentation of unemployment insurance may obligate the state to raise taxes on businesses, Jindal had indicated his intention to forgo federal stimulus plan funds ($98 million) aimed at increasing unemployment insurance for Louisiana.{{cite news|url=http://www.newser.com/story/51405/jindal-to-turn-down-stimulus-for-jobless.html|title=Jindal to Turn Down Stimulus $$$ for Jobless|date=February 20, 2009 |publisher=Newser.com}} Louisiana has since been obligated to raise taxes on businesses because the unemployment trust fund had dropped below the prescribed threshold.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/09/unemployment_taxes_to_rise_ben.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208161350/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/09/unemployment_taxes_to_rise_ben.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 8, 2013|title= Unemployment taxes to rise, benefits shrink in 2010|date=September 23, 2009 |publisher=nola.com}} Louisiana was set to receive about $3.8 billion overall. Jindal intended to accept at least $2.4 billion from the stimulus package.{{cite news|url=http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl030409cbstimulus.29c0d8c.html |title=Jindal to use $2.4 billion from stimulus package |publisher=WWL-TV |date=March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505223706/http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl030409cbstimulus.29c0d8c.html |archive-date=May 5, 2009 }} He called parts of the plan "irresponsible", saying that "the way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians."{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022402914_pf.html|first=Ben |last=Pershing|title=Obama Emphasizes Reform, Offers Hope Amid Economic Crisis|newspaper= The Washington Post|date= February 24, 2009 |access-date=July 14, 2009}}

In 2015, Jindal traveled to the UK to speak at an event by the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society. In that speech, he alleged the existence of "no-go zones", allegedly established by Muslims in London and other western cities. London mayor Boris Johnson called Jindal's remarks "complete nonsense".{{cite news|title="Complete nonsense": London mayor slams Bobby Jindal's Islamophobic "no-go zones" claim|url=https://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/complete_nonsense_london_mayor_slams_bobby_jindals_islamophobic_no_go_zones_claim/|work=Salon.com|date=2015-02-13}} and earlier British Prime Minister David Cameron had confirmed that there were not any no-go zones in the UK. Jindal later confirmed his meaning "I knew that by speaking the truth we were going to make people upset."{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11356188/US-governor-denounces-so-called-Muslim-no-go-zones-in-London-speech.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11356188/US-governor-denounces-so-called-Muslim-no-go-zones-in-London-speech.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=US governor denounces so-called Muslim 'no-go zones' in London speech |last1=Sherwell |first1=Philip |date=January 19, 2015 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=January 19, 2015}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news|last1=Elliott|first1=Philip|title=In London, Gov. Bobby Jindal slams Muslim 'no-go zones'|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2015/0120/In-London-Gov.-Bobby-Jindal-slams-Muslim-no-go-zones|access-date=January 20, 2015|agency=Associated Press|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=January 20, 2015}} When later asked by CNN to provide specific examples, Jindal declined. He later added that some Muslim immigrants are trying to "colonize" cities in Europe and "overtake the culture", and that it could happen next in the U.S.{{cite news | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/21/politics/bobby-jindal-no-go-zones-fox/ | title=Jindal: Some Muslims trying to 'colonize' West | publisher=CNN| date=January 21, 2015 | access-date=January 25, 2015 | author=Diamond, Jeremy}}{{cite news | url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/2016-us-presidential-hopeful-bobby-jindal-says-muslims-colonising-europe-621195 | title=2016 US Presidential Hopeful Bobby Jindal Says Muslims 'Colonising' Europe | work=International Business Times | date=January 25, 2015 | access-date=January 25, 2015 | author=Kharel, Gopi Chandra}}

Jindal was raised in a Hindu household. He is of Indian descent and is a U.S. citizen by birthright. He converted to Christianity while in Baton Rouge Magnet High School. During his first year at Brown University, he was baptized into the Catholic Church as an adult under the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).{{r|WashingtonPost_Whoriskey_20071021}}

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Before Jindal was born, his father Amar Jindal was assistant professor of engineering at Punjab University in Chandigarh. After settling into Louisiana, Jindal's father went on to work with a Louisiana railroad company, and his mother transitioned into Information Technology (IT). As of 2008, Jindal's mother, Raj Jindal, was information technology director for the Louisiana Workforce Commission (formerly the Louisiana Department of Labor) and served as Assistant Secretary to former State Labor Secretary Garey Forster during the administration of Governor Mike Foster.{{cite news|url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/16805881.html|work=The Advocate|date=March 19, 2008 |page=10A|title=Jindal's mother still with state|author=Millhollon, Michelle |location= Baton Rouge, Louisiana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321002513/http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/16805881.html|archive-date=March 21, 2008}} Jindal has a younger brother, Nikesh, who is a registered Republican and supported his brother's campaign for governor.{{cite web|url=http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/nikesh-jindal.asp?cycle=04|title=Nikesh Jindal – Political Contributions for 2004 |publisher=Campaignmoney.com|access-date=August 7, 2012}} Nikesh went to Dartmouth College, where he graduated with honors, and then Yale Law School. Nikesh is now a lawyer in Washington, D.C.

Jindal's nickname dates to his childhood identification with Bobby Brady, a character from the 1970's sitcom The Brady Bunch.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bobby-jindal-the-gops-rising-star/|title=Bobby Jindal: The GOP's Rising Star?|work=60 Minutes| publisher=CBS News|date=March 1, 2009|access-date=March 2, 2009}} He has been known by his nickname ever since, although his legal name remains Piyush Jindal.{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/16jindal1.htm|title=He is Piyush, not Bobby|work=India Abroad|date=November 16, 2003|author=Haniffa, Ariz|location=Baton Rouge, LA}}

In 1997, Jindal married Supriya Jolly, who was born in New Delhi, India and moved to Baton Rouge when she was 4 years old.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/24/meghan-mccain-interviews_n_178458.html|work=HuffPost|first=Rachel|last=Weiner|title=Meghan McCain Interviews Supriya Jindal, First Lady of Louisiana|date=March 24, 2009}} The two attended the same high school, but Supriya's family moved from Baton Rouge to New Orleans after her freshman year. Supriya Jindal earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and an M.B.A. degree from Tulane University.{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2008/01/suddenly_supriya_louisianas_ne.html|title=Suddenly Supriya: Louisiana's new first lady is mom and MBA|publisher=Nola.com|date=January 13, 2008|access-date=August 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015214736/http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2008/01/suddenly_supriya_louisianas_ne.html|archive-date=October 15, 2012|df=mdy-all}} She created The Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana's Children, a non-profit organization aimed at improving math and science education in grade schools.{{cite web|url=http://jindalfoundation.org|title=Jindal Foundation homepage|publisher=Jindalfoundation.org|access-date=August 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809115319/http://jindalfoundation.org/|archive-date=August 9, 2010|url-status=dead}}

The Jindals have three children: Selia Elizabeth, Shaan Robert, and Slade Ryan. Shaan was born with a congenital heart defect and had surgery as an infant. The Jindals have been outspoken advocates for children with congenital defects, particularly those without insurance. In 2006, he assisted as his wife delivered their third child at home, with him receiving medical coaching by phone to deliver their boy.{{cite web|last=Konieczko|first=Jill|url=https://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bobby-jindal.html|title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Bobby Jindal|publisher=U.S. News & World Report|date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=August 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623072857/http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bobby-jindal.html|archive-date=June 23, 2010}}

Jindal enjoys hunting in Louisiana.

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A list of Jindal's published writings up to 2001 can be found in the hearing report for his 2001 U.S. Senate confirmation.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=75166+site:finance.senate.gov|title=Nominations of Claude Allen, Thomas Scully, Piyush Jindal, Linnet F. Deily, Peter Allgeier, Peter R. Fisher, and James Gurule|access-date=September 26, 2014}} They include newspaper columns, law review articles, and first authorships in several scientific and policy articles that have appeared in the prominent Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Association, and Hospital Outlook.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

Jindal's pre-2001 writings include several articles in the New Oxford Review, one of which later made news during his 2003 gubernatorial race.{{cite web|url=http://politicalwire.com/archives/2003/11/07/jindal_and_satan.html|work=Political Wire|title=Jindal and Satan|first=Taegan|last=Goddard|date=November 7, 2003|access-date=June 12, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830000055/http://politicalwire.com/archives/2003/11/07/jindal_and_satan.html|archive-date=August 30, 2008|df=mdy-all}} In a 1994 article titled "Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare", Jindal described the events leading up to an apparent exorcism of a friend and how he felt unable to help her at the time. However, Jindal questioned whether what he saw was actually an example of spiritual warfare.{{cite web|last=Jindal|first=Bobby|date=December 1994|url=http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1294-jindal|title=Beating A Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare|work=New Oxford Review|access-date=May 12, 2010|quote=I began to think that the demon would only attack me if I tried to pray or fight back.... Did I witness spiritual warfare? I do not have the answers....|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105092644/http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1294-jindal|archive-date=January 5, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

In November 2010, Jindal published the book Leadership and Crisis, a semi-autobiography significantly influenced by the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.

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