Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of the Public Health Service, is charged with protecting the public health of the Nation by providing leadership and direction in the prevention of and…
- Civilian staff, August 2026
- 9,063
- −14.4% in a year
- Organizations that lobbied it
- 557
- 2019 to 2026
Where its power comes from
An agency can act only where a law lets it. These are the laws its rules cite, where its rules live, and the bills that would change it.
Bills that would change it
Bills this Congress that name it, the most recently moved first. A bill that names an agency is not a law.
Who runs it
Its leaders
- Erica SchwartzDirector of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Who pays to be heard
- AARP$83.1M on reports naming it
- American Medical Association$76.4M on reports naming it
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.$61M on reports naming it
- Erica SchwartzDirector of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Department of Health and Human ServicesThe department it sits in
- AARPLobbied it, $83.1M
- American Medical AssociationLobbied it, $76.4M
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.Lobbied it, $61M
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.Lobbied it, $46.6M
Its leaders
The people the Senate last confirmed to its offices, one record per office. A confirmation date is not proof someone still serves.
Who tries to sway it
Who names it on federal lobbying reports, 2019 to 2026, and who used to work there. Naming an agency is the filer’s account of where work was aimed, not a record of a meeting.
Who pays to be heard
The biggest spenders on reports that name it. A report names several issues, so each figure is the whole report.
- AARP$83.1M
- American Medical Association$76.4M
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.$61M
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.$46.6M
- National Retail Federation$41.2M
- Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (D/B/A Airlines for America)$37.6M
- Amazon.com Services LLC$32.3M
- Association of American Medical Colleges$27.2M
- Alzheimer's Association$23.7M
- Davita, Inc.$23.6M
- Advanced Medical Technology Assn$19.3M
- National Association of Realtors$18M
- Walmart Inc.$17.7M
- American Dental Association$17M
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.$16.9M
- Biotechnology Innovation Organization$16.9M
- Becton, Dickinson and Company$16.6M
- American College of Cardiology$15.8M
- National Association of Children's Hospitals (N.a.c.h.)$13.1M
- American Clinical Laboratory Assn$12.4M
Who files the lobbying
The firms on reports that name it, by how many clients they filed for.
- Health and Medicine Counsel, LLC15 clients
- Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, L.L.C.12 clients
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP11 clients
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld9 clients
- Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.C.9 clients
- Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP9 clients
- Health and Medicine Counsel9 clients
- Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.8 clients
- Artemis Policy Group LLC8 clients
- BGR Government Affairs8 clients
- Van Scoyoc Associates7 clients
- J M Burkman & Associates6 clients
- Lester Health Law PLLC5 clients
- The Nickles Group, LLC4 clients
- Holland & Knight LLP4 clients
- Jeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates, Inc.4 clients
- Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting4 clients
- A10 Associates, LLC4 clients
- Polsinelli PC4 clients
- Collier Collective, LLC3 clients
Former staff now lobbying
Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here.
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