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INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT OF 2025

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On 2026-02-24, Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24) delivered a floor speech titled "INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT OF 2025" in the House. The speech addressed taxes and also covered housing. It referenced legislation: HR6329.

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INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT OF 2025

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2026)] [House] [Pages H2276-H2277] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT OF 2025 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6329) to ensure that Federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available scientific, technical, demographic, economic, and statistical information and evidence to develop, issue or inform the public of the nature and bases of Federal agency rules and guidance, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Timmons) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 362, nays 1, not voting 69, as follows: [Roll No. 71] YEAS--362 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Bacon Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bentz Bera Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Bishop Boebert Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Burchett Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cline Cloud Clyburn Clyde Cohen Cole Comer Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz DeGette DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Downing Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Ezell Fallon Feenstra Fields Figures Fine Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Fong Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gill (TX) Gillen Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Higgins (LA) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kean Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Kennedy (UT) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Massie Matsui McBride McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Menendez Messmer Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Mullin Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Panetta Pappas Patronis Pelosi Perez Perry Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Riley (NY) Rivas Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Taylor Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--1 Fletcher [[Page H2277]] NOT VOTING--69 Alford Arrington Auchincloss Babin Baird Balderson Bell Bergman Brecheen Burlison Cammack Carter (GA) Ciscomani Cleaver Collins Conaway Correa Costa Crockett Dean (PA) DeLauro Dunn (FL) Evans (PA) Fedorchak Foster Gimenez Golden (ME) Gomez Hill (AR) Hoyer Hunt Jackson (IL) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Keating Latimer Lynch Magaziner Mast McBath McCaul Meeks Menefee Meng Meuser Moulton Mrvan Murphy Nadler Ocasio-Cortez Ogles Palmer Raskin Reschenthaler Roy Schakowsky Spartz Stauber Stefanik Strong Tenney Timmons Titus Trahan Van Drew Veasey Velazquez Waters Wilson (FL) {time} 1357 Mses. PRESSLEY, RANDALL, and Mr. COURTNEY changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I was necessarily absent and missed the following vote on the House floor. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71, H.R. 6329. Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mrs. SPARTZ. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. TIMMONS. Mr. Speaker, I missed the first vote of the first series today. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. GOMEZ. Mr. Speaker, I was not recorded on roll call vote no. 71. Had I been present, I would have voted ``YEA'' on roll call vote no. 71. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HR6329, HR6329

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INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT OF 2025 Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2026)] [House] [Pages H2276-H2277] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURANCE ACT OF 2025 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6329) to ensure that Federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available scientific, technical, demographic, economic, and statistical information and evidence to develop, issue or inform the public of the nature and bases of Federal agency rules and guidance, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Timmons) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 362, nays 1, not voting 69, as follows: [Roll No. 71] YEAS--362 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Bacon Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Bean (FL) Beatty Begich Bentz Bera Beyer Bice Biggs (AZ) Biggs (SC) Bilirakis Bishop Boebert Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Burchett Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cline Cloud Clyburn Clyde Cohen Cole Comer Courtney Craig Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davidson Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz DeGette DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Donalds Downing Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Ezell Fallon Feenstra Fields Figures Fine Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Fong Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Fry Fulcher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gill (TX) Gillen Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gosar Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Griffith Grijalva Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Hayes Hern (OK) Higgins (LA) Himes Hinson Horsford Houchin Houlahan Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kamlager-Dove Kean Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Kennedy (UT) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim Knott Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Massie Matsui McBride McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McDowell McGarvey McGovern McGuire McIver Menendez Messmer Mfume Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Mills Min Moolenaar Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moore (WV) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Mullin Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Panetta Pappas Patronis Pelosi Perez Perry Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Riley (NY) Rivas Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Self Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Steil Steube Stevens Strickland Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Taylor Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tiffany Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Wied Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--1 Fletcher [[Page H2277]] NOT VOTING--69 Alford Arrington Auchincloss Babin Baird Balderson Bell Bergman Brecheen Burlison Cammack Carter (GA) Ciscomani Cleaver Collins Conaway Correa Costa Crockett Dean (PA) DeLauro Dunn (FL) Evans (PA) Fedorchak Foster Gimenez Golden (ME) Gomez Hill (AR) Hoyer Hunt Jackson (IL) Johnson (TX) Kaptur Keating Latimer Lynch Magaziner Mast McBath McCaul Meeks Menefee Meng Meuser Moulton Mrvan Murphy Nadler Ocasio-Cortez Ogles Palmer Raskin Reschenthaler Roy Schakowsky Spartz Stauber Stefanik Strong Tenney Timmons Titus Trahan Van Drew Veasey Velazquez Waters Wilson (FL) {time} 1357 Mses. PRESSLEY, RANDALL, and Mr. COURTNEY changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.'' So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I was necessarily absent and missed the following vote on the House floor. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71, H.R. 6329. Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mrs. SPARTZ. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. TIMMONS. Mr. Speaker, I missed the first vote of the first series today. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 71. Mr. GOMEZ. Mr. Speaker, I was not recorded on roll call vote no. 71. Had I been present, I would have voted ``YEA'' on roll call vote no. 71. ____________________ Referenced legislation: HR6329, HR6329