Jeanne Cummings is a political reporter and Government Team Deputy Editor at Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C.

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  Previously she was assistant managing editor

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 for the Politico news organization. Cummings is a frequent panelist on the PBS

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 political discussion program Washington Week

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. Earlier, she had served on the Washington bureaus of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Wall Street Journal.

Ms. Cummings is a native of Maryland. She graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland

University of Maryland

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in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in political science.