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Eamon Javers

Eamon Javers is a correspondent for Politico, where he covers the Obama White House and the economy. Earlier in his career he was a Washington correspondent for Business Week magazine and an on-air correspondent for CNBC. In 2006 he received an investigative reporting award from the Medill School of Journalism for a story exposing how convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff had secretly paid columnists to write favorable stories about his clients. Javers appears frequently on CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, and the BBC. He is a graduate of Colgate University and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Maureen, and two children.