Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025

Enumerated powers · passes

Congress has authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers of the federal government. Setting standards for how federal agencies develop, use, and disclose influential information in rulemaking and guidance is a proper exercise of that authority and does not expand federal regulatory jurisdiction.

Bill of Rights · passes

The bill imposes obligations on federal agencies, not restrictions on individuals. It does not regulate speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, arms, quartering, search, self-incrimination, trial, jury, or punishment. Its public-comment requirement is consistent with the First Amendment and no provision of the Bill of Rights is infringed.

Individual liberty · passes

The bill does not restrict what any person can do with their own person, property, speech, labor, or belief. Instead, it strengthens individual and public sovereignty by requiring agencies to publish the factual material they rely on and to allow public comment on that material. The government bears no improper burden on individual freedom here.

Decentralization · passes

This is a federal procedural requirement directed at federal agencies. An individual, family, local community, or state cannot set government-wide information-quality and disclosure standards for all federal agencies. The bill does not consolidate decision-making upward because the federal rulemaking process already exists at the federal level; it only makes that process more transparent and participatory.

Due process and takings · passes

The bill does not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property and does not take private property for public use. It enhances procedural fairness by requiring agencies to disclose critical factual materials and citations and by creating opportunities for public comment, which is consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.