livingston, bob

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</div><div>...</div><div>Although well known in Louisiana, Livingston was a relatively low-key congressman for his first eighteen years in Washington. However, early in his career, he landed a spot on the powerful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Appropriations" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Appropriations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Appropriations Committee</a>. This, together with his conservative stances on most issues, made him popular with his constituents, most of whom had never been previously represented by a Republican.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chairman, House Appropriations Committee<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Livingston&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Chairman, House Appropriations Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Livingston first came to national attention in 1995, when he was named chairman of the Appropriations Committee after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution" title="Republican Revolution" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Republican takeover of the House</a>. This instantly made him one of the most powerful members of Congress. During one committee session, he brandished an alligator skinning knife, a Bouie knife, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete" title="Machete" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">machete</a> to demonstrate his seriousness as a budget-cutter.During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Monica Lewinsky scandal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Monica Lewinsky scandals</a>, Livingston was one of many Republicans who demanded President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Clinton</a>'s resignation, and later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment" title="Impeachment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">impeachment</a>, for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury" title="Perjury" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">perjury</a>. After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Newt Gingrich</a> resigned as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Speaker</a> in part because of Republican losses in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_election,1998" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House election, 1998" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1998 elections</a>, majority leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey" title="Dick Armey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dick Armey</a> and majority whip <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tom DeLay</a> had opted not to contest the Speaker's chair. Livingston subsequently announced that he was not only running for Speaker, but had lined up enough support to win. He was nominated as the Republican candidate for Speaker without opposition. As the GOP had retained a narrow majority in the House, this effectively made him Speaker-elect. Although the Speaker is formally elected by the entire House, in practice the majority party's candidate is all but assured of winning that vote.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Resignation</h3>During debate over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Impeachment of Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">impeachment of Bill Clinton</a> on December 19, 1998, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Hustler Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hustler Magazine</a> publisher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt" title="Larry Flynt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Larry Flynt</a> offered one million dollars for each unflattering sexual story about Republican members of congress. After one such story was made public about him by Flynt, Livingston acknowledged that he had had an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair" title="Affair" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">affair</a> and withdrew his candidacy for Speaker. He challenged<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="President (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bill Clinton</a> to resign as well.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a> Livingston then announced he would vacate his House seat in May 1999.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a> His leaving office came despite support from Minority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Gephardt" title="Dick Gephardt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dick Gephardt</a> of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Missouri</a> that the Democrats could work with Livingston and not make a continued issue of Livingston's affair. Livingston said that had he become Speaker, it would have been more difficult for the Republicans to carry out Clinton's impeachment and trial.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a> Thus, he removed himself from contention.Livingston was succeeded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vitter" title="David Vitter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Vitter</a> – who later became the first popularly elected Republican U.S. senator from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Louisiana</a> and subsequently admitted to having been involved in a prostitution ring run by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey" title="Deborah Jeane Palfrey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Deborah Jeane Palfrey</a>. The First District is currently represented by Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise" title="Steve Scalise" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Steve </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise" title="Steve Scalise" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Scalise</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metairie,Louisiana" title="Metairie, Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Metairie</a>, Louisiana, who faced controversy in 2014 for delivering a speech to white supremacist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke" title="David Duke" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Duke</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European-American_Unity_and_Rights_Organization" title="European-American Unity and Rights Organization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">European-American Unity and Rights Organization</a>(EURO).In 1985, Livingston had called for the resignation of Governor Edwin Edwards, who faced indictment and trial on charges of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering" class="mw-redirect" title="Racketeering" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">racketeering</a> and fraud. "He shouldn't continue to drag the image of our state down with his legal problems," Livingston said of Edwards.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a> Two years later Livingston unsuccessfully challenged Edwards for reelection, when the gubernatorial victory went to U.S. Representative Buddy Roemer.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gubernatorial race, 1987[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Livingston&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Gubernatorial race, 1987" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 1987, Livingston ran for governor, having declared, "You can lay our problems at the hands of politicians." He questioned the state's poor performance regarding school drop-outs, unemployment, and credit rating. He even noted that Louisiana had a high number of cancer patients, a factor often attributed to environmental hazards. Livingston continued:<blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm prepared to clean house. ... The rest of the nation has the impression that Louisiana doesn't want to work ... that Louisiana will tolerate corruption ... that Louisiana is not serious about improving its quality of life. ...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></blockquote>Despite polls which had generally showed that Livingston would face the incumbent governor,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Edwards" title="Edwin Edwards" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edwin Edwards</a>, in a second round of balloting, Livingston finished third of nine candidates. Because of a last-week surge to his fellow U.S. representative, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Roemer" title="Buddy Roemer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Buddy Roemer</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Louisiana's 4th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Louisiana's 4th congressional district</a>, Livingston fell ten points short of a runoff berth. Roemer was slated into a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runoff_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Runoff election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">runoff election</a> officially the Louisiana <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_election" title="General election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">general election</a>. Two other major candidates finished behind Livingston: then Democratic, later Republican, Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tauzin" title="Billy Tauzin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Billy Tauzin</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Louisiana's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Louisiana's 3rd congressional district</a> and outgoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Louisiana" title="Secretary of State of Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H.%22Jim%22_Brown" title="James H. "Jim" Brown" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">James H. "Jim" Brown</a>.After the primary, Livingston quickly endorsed his House colleague Roemer, then a Democrat, but the runoff election was canceled because Edwards conceded the race to Roemer. It was said that Edwards had wanted to face Livingston in a general election, and had that scenario developed he would have remained around for the second balloting. Instead Edwards pulled out of the second round of balloting to prevent Roemer from consolidating majority support.Despite his showing in the gubernatorial race, Livingston remained popular in his district and went on to win easy re-elections as he moved up the leadership ladder in the House.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Subsequent career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Livingston&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Subsequent career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Livingston Group<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Livingston&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Livingston Group" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Soon after retiring from public life he founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Livingston_Group" title="The Livingston Group" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Livingston Group</a>, a lobbying group in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_DC" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington DC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington DC</a>. Some of their noted accomplishments include Congressional approval of a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93United_States_Free_Trade_Agreement" title="Morocco–United States Free Trade Agreement" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Morocco–United States Free Trade Agreement</a> and Congressional normalization of relations between the US and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" title="Libya" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Libya</a> following the Libyan abdication of nuclear technology and settlement of claims by family members for people killed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103" title="Pan Am Flight 103" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pan Am Flight 103</a> and other violent incidents in the 1980s.<h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Clients<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Livingston&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Clients" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>The Livingston Group's clients include "the Cities of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans,Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans, Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">New Orleans</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Rouge,Louisiana" title="Baton Rouge, Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Baton Rouge</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Northrop Grumman</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Orleans_Business_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Orleans Business Council (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">New Orleans Business Council</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolls-Royce plc" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rolls-Royce</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Verizon</a>."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-Carney-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a> Another important client was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Turkey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Republic of Turkey</a>, on whose behalf the Group lobbied to maintain and improve US relations as they pertained to international and historical issues affecting the Republic of Turkey. Critics contend that this lobbying was a form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Armenian_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Denial of the Armenian Genocide" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">genocide denial</a>, as Turkey does not recognize the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide" title="Armenian Genocide" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians</a> as a genocide, and does not want the American Government to recognize these events as genocide either.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[13]</a>The Livingston Group has also represented the government of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Egypt</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-Carney-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a> Acting as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_lobby_in_the_United_States" title="Arab lobby in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lobbyist for Egypt</a> Livingston "helped stall a Senate bill that called on Egypt to curtail human rights abuses" in 2010.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[14]</a> His stated role is to enhance relations between the United States and the Republic of Egypt, which he perceives as critical to a resolution of tension in the Middle East.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other work<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Livingston&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Other work" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Livingston, considered a formidable lobbyist, was identified by Jonathan Tilove of the New Orleans<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times-Picayune" class="mw-redirect" title="Times-Picayune" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Times-Picayune</a> as supporting U.S. Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cao" title="Joseph Cao" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anh "Joseph" Cao</a>.In 2003, Livingston was inducted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Political_Museum_and_Hall_of_Fame" title="Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame</a> in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Winnfield" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Winnfield</a>.Livingston testified in the 2009 trial of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mose_Jefferson" title="Mose Jefferson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mose Jefferson</a>, who was convicted on four counts related to bribery.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[15]</a>From 2011 to 2014, Livingston became Treasurer of the Louisiana Republican Party.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-Carney-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a> "Livingston said taking the fundraising assignment for the Louisiana GOP would not in any way undermine the work of The Livingston Group."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-Carney-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a>Livingston is also a member of the board of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Foundation_for_Electoral_Systems" title="International Foundation for Electoral Systems" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">International Foundation for Electoral Systems</a>, a non-profit involved in international elections,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Livingston#cite_note-ifesboard-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[16]</a> and he is a Knight of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sovereign Military Order of Malta</a>.</div><div>
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