Scorecards & Trackers

LCV, Heritage Action, and GovTrack, read side by side

A scorecard isn't a lie, but it's not a neutral fact either — it's an organization's own definition of a good vote, applied consistently. Two of the three trackers below are explicitly advocacy groups grading Huizenga on opposite scales, and the third is closer to a neutral instrument that just counts what happened. Laid out together, next to the actual roll calls behind them, they're more useful than any one of them alone.

Last reviewed Sept. 23, 2026 · Corrections log

Corrected Sept. 23, 2026: an earlier version said a low LCV score and a high Heritage Action score amounted to "two organizations agreeing with each other about who Huizenga is." Scorecards measure agreement with each organization's chosen votes, not who a member is. The sentence now says only that his record aligns much more closely with Heritage Action's preferences than with LCV's. The Heritage Action session score is updated from 84% to 85%, as posted Sept. 23, 2026.

Context: the two percentage scores below aren't measuring the same thing, and they're not supposed to. LCV scores how often a member votes the way the League of Conservation Voters wants on environmental bills. Heritage Action scores how often a member votes the way a conservative advocacy group wants across a broader policy range. A low LCV score and a high Heritage Action score for the same member isn't a contradiction. Each organization scores a selected set of votes against its own policy preferences. Taken together, the scores indicate that Huizenga's voting record generally aligns much more closely with Heritage Action's conservative policy preferences than with LCV's environmental priorities.

Two advocacy scorecards, two different definitions of "good"

Labeled as advocacy sources, per Methodology

Huizenga's 2025 League of Conservation Voters score. His lifetime LCV score is 6%.

Source: LCV National Environmental Scorecard

85%

Huizenga's Heritage Action score for the 119th Congress session, as of Sept. 23, 2026. Heritage updates it as it adds scored votes. His lifetime score is 80%.

Source: Heritage Action scorecard

Neither number is wrong. They're built from different vote lists, weighted by different priorities, and published by organizations that exist to advance those priorities. Treat them as what each organization thinks a good vote looks like, not as an independent verdict on Huizenga. Each score reflects four choices the organization makes: which issues it covers, which votes on those issues it scores, which side of each vote it counts as correct, and how it weights and totals them. A score says how often a member voted with that organization. It doesn't measure legislative effectiveness or how well a member represents a district.

GovTrack: closer to a neutral instrument

Nonpartisan tracker

GovTrack isn't grading Huizenga against a policy checklist the way LCV or Heritage Action do. It mostly counts things: missed votes, bills sponsored, bills that actually became law, and how often a member's cosponsorships line up with the rest of their party. The Voting Record piece already uses its most useful number for this site's purposes — the 2.3% missed-vote rate, compiled from House Clerk data going back to 2011. GovTrack also publishes an ideology score and a leadership score, but it withholds both for members who haven't sponsored enough bills for the underlying statistics to be reliable, and Huizenga's public profile doesn't surface a clean current figure for either. Rather than guess at a number GovTrack itself won't commit to, I'm leaving it out and pointing you to his GovTrack profile directly if you want to check for yourself.

Reading them against real votes

Cross-referenced to the Voting Record piece

Vote	How Huizenga voted	What the scorecards would say	Public statement
H.R. 2140, Diesel Emissions Reduction Act reauthorization (Roll 304)	Nay	The kind of vote that drags an LCV score down — it's a vote against extending an EPA emissions-reduction program, even one with a direct district tie to agricultural equipment	None found
H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll 190)	Yea	The kind of vote that lifts a Heritage Action score — the flagship tax-and-spending priority of the conservative movement this Congress	Said it would stop "the largest tax increase in our nation's history" and framed the SNAP and Medicaid work requirements as targeting "waste, fraud, and abuse," not the vulnerable — see the Voting Record piece for the full quote

Both rows are the same member in the same term. The scorecards aren't disagreeing about what happened; they're grading it against different rubrics. That's the whole point of reading them side by side instead of picking whichever one already matches what you wanted to believe.

What's not measured yet: a full side-by-side table covering every scored vote from every organization, and a current, sourceable GovTrack ideology or leadership percentile if one ever becomes available. See Methodology for the sourcing rules, or the Articles index for what else is planned.