PERSON: Nancy Cordes

Congressional correspondent

Nancy Cordes is CBS News’ Congressional correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She contributes to all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

Cordes, who joined CBS News in 2007, as CBS News Transportation and Consumer Safety correspondent, continues to cover those beats as well.

Prior to joining CBS News, Cordes was an ABC News correspondent based in New York (2005-07), where she reported for all ABC News broadcasts and covered many major news stories, including Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and the 2004 election. Before that, she was a Washington-based correspondent for NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News (2003-04). Prior to joining ABC News, Cordes was a reporter for WJLA-TV Washington, D.C. (1999-2003), where she covered the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon, the 2000 Presidential race, the D.C.-area sniper attacks, and peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia. She began her career as a reporter for KHNL-TV Honolulu (1995-97).

Cordes was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Hawaii on the islands of Kauai and Oahu. She was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. Cordes received a master’s degree in public policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

— cbsnews.com