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A dated record of every substantive correction and material update to this site, newest first. Each corrected page also carries its own note saying what the earlier version said.
Last updated Oct. 31, 2026 · Corrections policy · Editorial standards
Correction means an earlier version was wrong: a figure, date, legislative status, attribution, or causal claim. Update means the earlier version was accurate for its time but has materially changed: a new data release, a bill advancing, or a change in method or standards. Typo and formatting fixes aren't logged. Rows added from Oct. 31, 2026 on also say when the sources were checked, what's still uncertain, and which Four-Part Test panels are affected, if any.
| Date | Page | What changed |
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| Oct. 31, 2026 | Tariffs & Manufacturing, Alliances & Trade | Correction. Both pages said the 2026 Section 338 tariffs were on Canadian "dairy, alcoholic beverages, and motor vehicles," and that the September import bans covered Canadian vehicles, dairy, and alcohol. Those are the sectors where the President found Canadian discrimination against U.S. exports. The tariffs and bans apply to lists of Canadian products drawn mostly from other sectors, such as flower bulbs, seeds, honey, plastics, wood, and paper (Proclamation 11048 and its annex). The $20 billion figure is unchanged. Update in the same entries: Proclamation 11076 (signed Oct. 23, effective Oct. 30) removed 22 product lines and added about 90. Checked Oct. 30–31, 2026. Still uncertain: which added products are made or used in MI-4. Four-Part Test: no panel affected. |
| Oct. 31, 2026 | Outside Influence, Start Here | Update. Outside spending now runs through reports received Oct. 30, 2026 (was Oct. 22), recounted from the FEC's independent expenditure file of Oct. 31 with the article's method, which reproduces the earlier totals exactly. Against him: about $11.7 million (was $9.8 million), mostly new House Majority PAC reports. Supporting him: $2,330,699 (was $2,322,436). Building Together and Working America appear for the first time. Campaign receipts are unchanged; the pre-general report is still the latest full report. Still uncertain: these are mostly 24- and 48-hour estimates and will change. The evidence matrix download is updated to match. Context only, not a test. |
| Oct. 31, 2026 | Energy & Electric Bills, Start Here, Four-Part Test, Open Questions | Update. The Campbell net cost is now $303 million through Sept. 30, 2026, after $344 million in market revenue; it was $259 million through June 30, after $239 million (CMS Energy 10-Q, Oct. 27, 2026). The energy page also adds that Consumers expects DOE to appeal the D.C. Circuit ruling, and dates Palisades' 0% power level to Oct. 30. Checked Oct. 30, 2026. Still uncertain: how much MI-4 customers will pay, which depends on FERC; whether DOE has sought further review; and whether DOE issues a seventh order before the sixth expires Nov. 14. Four-Part Test: the cost figure changes in the Long-Term Durability panel and in two open questions, one each under Congressional Responsibility and Long-Term Durability. No Evidence, Record, or Trend value changes. |
| Oct. 31, 2026 | Start Here | Update. The voting box now gives the remaining deadlines (in-person absentee requests until 4 p.m. Nov. 2; early voting through Nov. 1) and links the Voter Information Center's polling-place, ballot, and absentee-tracking tools; the past Oct. 19 and Oct. 30 deadlines are noted as past. The page's check for later House votes now runs to Oct. 30 (none). Checked Oct. 30, 2026 on the Secretary of State's elections page. Four-Part Test: no panel affected. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Alliances & Trade | Correction. The trade card said Michigan–Canada goods trade fell $10.3 billion, from $78.4 billion in 2023 to $68.1 billion in 2024, citing an ebtc.info compilation that couldn't be rechecked (the site now returns only an error page). Census Bureau international trade data, Michigan exports to Canada plus general imports from Canada, show $78.6 billion and $69.4 billion, a $9.2 billion drop (Census international trade data). The card now uses the Census figures and keeps its note that the decline predates the 2025 tariffs. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Outside Influence, Start Here, Committee & Legislative Record | Update. Campaign figures now run through the pre-general report (Oct. 1–14, 2026; FEC file 2037215), up from Sept. 30: receipts $5.56 million (was $5.37 million), PACs $2.10 million (was $2.02 million, still 38%), and finance PACs 42% of PAC money (was 43%). Outside spending now runs through reports received Oct. 22 (was Oct. 21); only the LCV Victory Fund's total changed. The finance-PAC comparison uses the FEC file of Oct. 18. Correction within the same section: PAC money routed through joint fundraising committees was given as $93,195; it's $103,195, because two PACs the filings code as "COM" were left out. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Legislative Effectiveness, Outside Influence | Update. Every Legislative Effectiveness figure from the Center for Effective Lawmaking's data was rebuilt from its June 26, 2025 file and matched. The page now discloses that the Democratic comparison groups include a delegate, Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, and publishes the groups as a download (legislative-effectiveness-peers.json). The Outside Influence evidence matrix, drawn entirely from public records, is also published (outside-influence-evidence.json). |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Active Representation | Correction. Completes the Oct. 22 farm-bill correction below. That correction updated the orchard row's text but left it in the "Introduced, still pending" table, and the paragraph under that table still said "None of them has passed." The Tree Assistance Program provisions now sit under "Passed the House, not enacted" (H.R. 7567, Roll 154), and the row says separately that the stand-alone bill, H.R. 8251, was only referred to committee (bill status). A new check in the site's pre-publish tool now fails if an "Introduced" table records House passage. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Voting Record, Active Representation, Start Here | Correction. The Voting Record said the Water Resources Development Act of 2026 (H.R. 9497) "funds Great Lakes harbor and dredging projects, including Lake Michigan ports," and Active Representation said the act "funds that kind of work." The bill authorizes Corps work, appropriates no money, and names no MI-4 harbor project (House-passed text); the row now lists the provisions that reach the district's harbors, and Start Here notes that it's pending in the Senate. The Voting Record also said the TikTok bill, H.R. 7521, was "later signed into law." H.R. 7521 went no further than Senate committee; a revised version (270 days to divest instead of 180, plus a possible 90-day extension) passed the House inside H.R. 8038 (Roll 145) and became law as division H of P.L. 118-50. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Committee & Legislative Record, Outside Influence, Voting Record, Active Representation, Four-Part Test dashboard | Correction. Several pages described the GENIUS Act (S. 1582) as written by or coming out of House Financial Services: "came out of Financial Services," "the committee that wrote them," and "bills from his committee." GENIUS was a Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Bill Hagerty and passed by the House without committee referral (bill status; Financial Services section-by-section). CLARITY and FIT21 were House bills reported by Financial Services and the Agriculture Committee. The home page's card for the Outside Influence article said it covers lobbying "on his committee's bills"; it now says legislation in his committee's jurisdiction. Active Representation had also stated as fact that he "helped shepherd" GENIUS; it now attributes that to his office. The District Relevance panel's supporting text said "his legislation that advances" includes GENIUS and now says legislation "he has written or helped advance." No Evidence, Record, or Trend label changed. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | H.R. 1 in MI-4, District Baseline, Healthcare & Coverage | Correction. The H.R. 1 page called the tips, overtime, and auto-loan interest deductions "above-the-line." The law allows them whether or not a taxpayer itemizes, but they don't reduce adjusted gross income (P.L. 119-21, secs. 70201–70203). The overtime row said the deduction covers "overtime pay"; it covers only the premium the Fair Labor Standards Act requires (IRS). The H.R. 1 page said "no district-level SNAP data appears to exist publicly," and its introduction to that section said "None of the SNAP figures below are MI-4-specific" and that a district SNAP figure didn't appear to be published; the District Baseline listed SNAP participation and Marketplace enrollment as not published for the district. Both pages now give the Census Bureau's estimate that 35,640 MI-4 households (±2,730), 11.4%, received SNAP in the previous 12 months (ACS 2024 1-year, S2201), a survey estimate rather than a program count. The District Baseline and Healthcare pages add CMS's estimate of about 32,000 Marketplace plan selections in MI-4 for 2024 (CMS), apportioned from ZIP codes and not current enrollment. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Outside Influence | Correction. The receipts chart labeled $1,949,390 as itemized contributions from individuals. That FEC line also includes $61,250 from nine organizations, mostly businesses and tribal governments; the label now says so, and the text explains that the 61% Michigan share uses the $1.89 million given by people. No figure changed. The methodology now explains why the October quarterly report shows $11,675 more in cycle-to-date receipts than the FEC summary: the report's cycle starts Nov. 6, 2024, and the summary's starts Jan. 1, 2025. The limits section said the article's unresolved items were in the Open Questions register, which tracks only questions tied to the Four-Part Test; the section now lists them on the article. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Methodology, Home | Correction. Methodology listed USAFacts among "government and primary sources," and the home page's footer listed USAFacts, GovTrack, the Cook Political Report, and advocacy scorecards under "Primary sources used across this site." Both now separate primary government records, secondary compilations and analysis, and advocacy sources. The footer had also said every statistic is cited to "its original source"; it now says every statistic is cited to its source. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Committee & Legislative Record, Public Accountability, Healthcare & Coverage, Energy & Electric Bills, Priorities index | Correction. Dates. The first four pages gained related-investigation boxes on Oct. 22, 2026 but showed no "Updated" date, and the Priorities index said "Updated Oct. 12" although the dashboard it embeds was last changed Oct. 22. Each page now shows the date of its last material change, the home page's Start Here card matches Start Here's own date, and Energy & Electric Bills shows its Oct. 8 publication date; no "Last reviewed" date moved. The pre-publish check now fails if a page's dates are older than its newest correction note or than the dashboard it embeds. |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Public Accountability, Outside Influence | Update. Added a same-channel sensitivity check to Public Accountability, because the weekly column stopped in April 2025 and the newsletter archive lists no issue after Sept. 24, 2025. Counting only press releases, floor remarks, and news interviews, 7 of 16 decisions in 2023–24 and 5 of 21 in 2025–26 have substantive explanations, against 9 of 16 and 5 of 21 as published. The difference narrows but persists. The 37-decision sample, its rule, and its published counts are unchanged, and no dashboard label changed. The research dataset and the PAC industry classification are now published as dated downloads (public-accountability.json, outside-influence-pacs-2026.json). |
| Oct. 22, 2026 | Agriculture, Active Representation, Legislative Effectiveness, Voting Record, Start Here, Four-Part Test | Correction. Several pages said his Tree Assistance Program bill (H.R. 8251) hadn't advanced: Agriculture said it "hasn't had a floor vote, so there's no roll call to report yet," Active Representation said "neither has had a floor vote," Legislative Effectiveness said his specialty-crop bills "haven't moved," and the District Relevance panel listed it among bills that "haven't advanced." The Voting Record and Start Here mentioned only the 2024 farm bill's lack of a floor vote. On Apr. 30, 2026 the House passed the 2026 farm bill, H.R. 7567, 224–200 (Roll 154), with Huizenga voting yes; section 1002 is a revised version of H.R. 8251. The vote is now in the Voting Record and Start Here, and each page describes the provisions' status. The dashboard's supporting-evidence wording changed; no Evidence, Record, or Trend label changed. The Public Accountability sample, defined as decisions the site covered before that research began, is unaffected. |
| Oct. 22, 2026 | Home, Entitlement Durability, Trade & Manufacturing, Alliances & Trade, Open Questions | Update. New data: Michigan's unemployment rate moves from August to September 2026 (5.0%, unchanged; the national comparison moves from 4.1% to 4.2%). Total federal debt moves from $40.1 trillion (mid-September) to $40.4 trillion (Oct. 20, 2026), and the note on the debt limit now gives the remaining margin. The Palisades status now cites the NRC's Oct. 21, 2026 report (still 0% power) in place of Oct. 9. The trade pages add the Sept. 8, 2026 U.S. response to Canada: Section 338 import bans on certain Canadian vehicles, dairy, and alcohol, and removal of $50 billion of Canadian-origin products from federal purchasing schedules. |
| Oct. 22, 2026 | Start Here, Methodology, Home, Articles index, Active Representation | Update. Start Here adds three sections summarizing existing pages: his Financial Services work (banks and crypto), allies and Ukraine, and campaign money, and links the District Baseline and Legislative Effectiveness. Methodology adds a campaign-finance section and names FEC filings and lobbying disclosures as sources in place of "OpenSecrets/FEC," as does the home page's source list. The Articles index's District Economics entry now links to the H.R. 1 article. Active Representation adds his office's Sept. 10, 2026 announcement of $1.6 million in federal mental-health grants, with its attribution limits. Cross-links were added among the Voting Record, Active Representation, Legislative Effectiveness, Public Accountability, Scorecards & Trackers, and Outside Influence. No finding changed. |
| Oct. 22, 2026 | Outside Influence, Articles index, Four-Part Test | Update. Published a new article, Who Has Bill Huizenga's Ear?, on campaign contributions, independent expenditures, and lobbying around his 2025–26 campaign, with case studies on crypto, community banks, and energy. Related-investigation links were added to the Four-Part Test page (outside the dashboard), Public Accountability, Committee & Legislative Record, Energy & Electric Bills, and Healthcare & Coverage. No dashboard characterization, test definition, or finding on another page changed. |
| Oct. 12, 2026 | Entitlement Durability, Start Here | Correction. Entitlement Durability said the Fiscal Commission Act "has had no markup or floor vote in either Congress it has been introduced in." The earlier version, H.R. 5779, was marked up and approved 22–12 by the House Budget Committee on Jan. 18, 2024; it didn't reach the floor. The current version, H.R. 3289, has had no markup or floor vote. Start Here said the bill "hasn't had a markup or floor vote" without separating the two versions, and that it and two related measures had had no committee action; it now gives both versions' records and says none of the three has had a markup in this Congress. The Fiscal Responsibility page and the dashboard already gave the 2024 committee vote. |
| Oct. 12, 2026 | Four-Part Test dashboard, Open Questions, Home, Priorities index | Update. The dashboard now draws on the Oct. 8 energy analysis. District Relevance adds his Palisades advocacy as supporting evidence, separating his role (letters and public statements) from the Energy Department's financing decisions and from the plant's still-unmeasured results. Long-Term Durability adds the Palisades restart and the Ratepayer Protection Act on one side, and on the other the Campbell plant's company-reported $259 million net cost (not an approved recovery amount), Palisades' paused restart, and H.R. 1's energy-credit terminations. Congressional Responsibility's trend note connects the Campbell emergency-power question to the D.C. Circuit's Sept. 11, 2026 ruling. Two open questions are added, on Palisades' results and on who pays Campbell's costs, and the energy article is added to all three panels' evidence links. Each trend note now names the review it compares against. No label changed. Each was reassessed against the published definitions and kept: District Relevance (Developing, Mixed, New evidence complicating), Long-Term Durability (Substantial, Tension Identified, Unchanged), and Congressional Responsibility (Substantial, Mixed, Unchanged). The dashboard now shows its last full source review (Sept. 25, 2026) separately from its last material update. |
| Oct. 12, 2026 | All pages (header and footer) | Update. Methodology moves from the header navigation to a new footer navigation, "More about Don't Lie to Me," beside the independence statement. It also links to the editorial standards, this log, and the Open Questions register. No page content changed. |
| Oct. 12, 2026 | All pages (header), Home, Methodology | Update. Start Here is now in the site-wide navigation. The home page introduction is shorter and links to What this site covers, which keeps the full scope explanation, and Recent analysis now features the Oct. 8 and Oct. 12 changes. Methodology's review-date standard now separates "Last reviewed" (sources re-checked), "Updated" (a later material change), and the date a running data series runs through, and the dashboard method says each trend note names its comparison period. Pages changed since their last full review now show both dates. |
| Oct. 8, 2026 | Energy & Electric Bills, Start Here, Articles index | Update. Published a new article, Two power plants and the energy record, on the Palisades nuclear plant and the J.H. Campbell coal plant, both inside MI-4, and on Huizenga's energy votes. It covers his bipartisan advocacy for restarting Palisades; his support for keeping Campbell open under the Department of Energy's emergency orders, the cost Consumers Energy reports, and the D.C. Circuit's Sept. 11, 2026 ruling vacating the first order; and his votes on the 2023 Lower Energy Costs Act, H.R. 1's energy credits, FY2026 home energy assistance, and the Ratepayer Protection Act. The Start Here page's energy section, previously marked "Not yet covered," now summarizes it, and the Articles index lists it. The Open Questions register and the Congressional Responsibility panel of the dashboard add one question: his position on DOE's emergency power and the court ruling. No dashboard characterization changed, and no finding on another page changed. |
| Oct. 8, 2026 | Start Here, Home, Articles index | Update. Published a new Start Here page summarizing the record issue by issue: key votes, Huizenga's own explanations, what he has built, and open questions, each linked to the full research. It adds no new findings. It also carries Michigan's Nov. 3, 2026 voting dates from the Secretary of State. The home page's main button now points to it, and the Articles index introduction, which said every topic was still "planned," now says they're published and links to Start Here. |
| Oct. 8, 2026 | Voting Record | Correction. The government funding table, described as listing every stopgap that reached a House roll call, was missing the Sept. 1, 2026 vote clearing the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027 (P.L. 119-103; Roll 286, 370–48), which funds the government through Dec. 11, 2026. The Clerk's record lists the vote under the bill's original title, the AGOA Extension Act. Huizenga voted yes; no finding changes. |
| Oct. 8, 2026 | Home, Methodology, all pages (header) | Update. The site's stated purpose and scope are now explicit. The home page opening, which described the site as "the numbers on Southwest Michigan," now asks whether MI-4 is getting the representation it needs in Congress, and the header tagline changes from "Michigan's 4th District, by the numbers" to "Michigan's 4th District in Congress, on the record." A new Methodology section, What this site covers, sets the scope: the site evaluates whoever holds the MI-4 House seat, uses a member's earlier House service as a baseline, covers the presidency, the Senate, and state government only where they connect directly to the member's record, and doesn't endorse or evaluate candidates or campaigns. No published finding changes. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Four-Part Test dashboard, Priorities index, Home, Methodology, Open Questions | Update. The site's three-part test (district relevance, long-term durability, congressional responsibility) becomes a Four-Part Test with Public Accountability added. The tests are grouped as Representation and Institutional Performance, and the first three are reworded without a change in substance. Added the Four-Part Test dashboard (Evidence, Record, and Trend for each test; no score or grade), the Open Questions register, and Methodology sections on the Four-Part Test, the dashboard, and the public-accountability test. Added a "Four-Part Test" link to every page's navigation. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Public Accountability, Legislative Effectiveness, MI-4 District Baseline, Articles index | Update. Published three new pages. On the Articles index, Legislative Effectiveness and the MI-4 District Baseline change from "Scoped, not started" to Published, and entries for Public Accountability and Open Questions are added. Legislative Effectiveness uses the Center for Effective Lawmaking's House data through 2024 (an academic source, labeled as such) and Congress's bill-status files for 2025–26. Its data gaps are stated on the page. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Voting Record | Correction. The "Public statement" column said "None found" for eight votes where his office had published an explanation: the Limit, Save, Grow Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act (2023), the November 2023 Israel bill, the FY2024 and FY2026 defense authorizations, the Social Security Fairness Act, the March 2025 full-year funding law, and the Rescissions Act. The April 2024 Ukraine row said no statement on the vote itself was found, although he explained it that day. The FY2024 defense authorization row said no MI-4-specific provision was found; it authorized $24.5 million for the Naval Reserve Center in Battle Creek. The FY2027 defense row suggested his port and State Department provisions might be in that bill; they're in the FY2026 law. His Mar. 4, 2026 floor statement on Iran is added. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Alliances & Trade | Correction. The page said the House-passed FY2027 defense bill (H.R. 8800) included his Strategic Ports Reporting Act and reinforced NATO's 3.5%/1.5% spending targets, and that the ports provision wasn't law. Neither provision is in H.R. 8800. Both became law in December 2025 in the FY2026 defense authorization (P.L. 119-60, secs. 1704 and 1248). The Ukraine section said no statement explaining his 2024 no vote had been found. His office explained it the day of the vote, citing the bill's cost and non-military spending and the narrower amendment he backed. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Active Representation, Committee & Legislative Record | Correction. Active Representation listed the Strategic Ports Reporting Act as a provision of H.R. 8800 that "isn't law." It passed the House on its own in May 2025 and became law as sec. 1704 of P.L. 119-60. The page also left out his Battle Creek runway bill (enacted in the 2024 FAA reauthorization, P.L. 118-63), his AUKUS submarine-transfer provision (P.L. 118-31), State Department public-diplomacy provisions (P.L. 119-60), and the BRAVE Burma Act's House passage. The Committee & Legislative Record page now covers his Foreign Affairs bills that became law (Update). |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Entitlement Durability | Correction. The page said no public statement from Huizenga explaining his Social Security Fairness Act vote had been found. His Nov. 26, 2024 newsletter explained it on fairness grounds. The explanation is now quoted, with a note that it doesn't address the bill's cost or trust-fund effect. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Healthcare & Coverage | Correction. The page said the record reviewed didn't identify a public statement from Huizenga explaining his vote against extending the enhanced ACA premium credits (H.R. 1834). He explained it to the Detroit News on the day of the vote. The explanation is now included, and the page refers to the Four-Part Test. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Congressional Responsibility | Update. Added Huizenga's Mar. 4, 2026 floor statement on the first Iran war-powers resolution (Congressional Record, H2403–H2404). The page previously relied on a secondary summary of a June 2026 interview for his rationale. No characterization on the page changed. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Agriculture | Correction. A Sept. 23 correction note said crop acreage "isn't published by congressional district." USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture publishes district totals, including farmland acreage and the largest crops by acreage, though not fruit-by-fruit figures. The district's farm totals are now on the page. |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Fiscal Responsibility, Trade & Manufacturing | Update. Fiscal Responsibility adds the Budget Committee's 2024 approval of the Fiscal Commission Act, his 3% Resolution (H.Res. 981), the No Budget, No Pay Act, and his August 2026 debt statement. Trade & Manufacturing adds the district-wide manufacturing share (20.9%, ACS 2024 1-year). No earlier figure changed. |
| Sept. 24, 2026 | Healthcare & Coverage, Priorities index, Articles index | Update. Added Healthcare & Coverage priority examining Huizenga's ACA, Medicaid, Marketplace-affordability, healthcare-reform, and federal clinical-policy record. The Articles index entry for this topic changes from "Scoped, not started" to Published. Cross-links were added from the H.R. 1 impact, Voting Record, Fiscal Responsibility, Entitlement Durability, Congressional Responsibility, and Active Representation pages. No figure or finding on those pages changed. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Entitlement Durability | Correction. The page said an immediate payroll-tax increase of 4.42 percentage points would close Social Security's 75-year gap. In the 2026 Trustees Report, 4.42% of taxable payroll is the actuarial deficit. The report gives the equivalent payroll-tax increase as 4.25 points (12.40% to 16.65%) to pay scheduled benefits through 2100. The OASI and HI dates now also give the quarter (fourth quarter of 2032; second quarter of 2033). |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Agriculture, Articles index | Correction. The page said Michigan "leads the country in blueberries." In USDA's 2025 figures it ranked fifth. An undated "~70%" tart cherry share is replaced with USDA's 2025 figure (77%), and the earlier same-day claim that most of the state's tart cherries grow in northwest Michigan is removed because no 2025 regional source was found. The export section said China's retaliatory tariffs "hit fruit exports specifically." The cited source doesn't isolate China's tariffs or separate tariffs from other factors, so the explanation is now attributed to Michigan's agriculture director. The Articles index blurb ("the 2025 trade war has hit their export markets hard") is reworded to match. An undated MSU blueberry figure is replaced with USDA's 2025 data. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Voting Record | Correction. The row for the May 22, 2025 House passage of H.R. 1 (Roll 145) said Massie was the only Republican to vote no. The House Clerk's record shows two, Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson, with Andy Harris voting present. The FY2027 defense authorization row gave a "$1.15T" topline and called the vote "one of the narrowest NDAA votes in years." Neither could be tied to a primary source, and both are removed; the row now gives the Clerk's party breakdown and the bill's Senate status. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Voting Record, Congressional Responsibility | Correction. Roll 203 (July 18, 2025) was described as a vote on the rule "taking up" the Senate version of the Rescissions Act. H.Res. 590 was self-executing: adopting it also agreed to the Senate amendment, so it was the House's final vote on the bill. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Voting Record, Methodology | Update. The vote-selection criteria no longer use the undefined term "national weight" or the phrase "nationally significant bill." Defined categories now include rescissions, final passage of the annual defense authorization, stand-alone foreign military-assistance bills, and bills carrying Huizenga's own provisions. The few bills included on editorial judgment (for example the TikTok divestiture bill, the Laken Riley Act, and the SPEED Act) are now labeled as a judgment category that isn't applied exhaustively. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Scorecards & Trackers, Voting Record | Correction. An earlier version said a low LCV score and a high Heritage Action score were "two organizations agreeing with each other about who Huizenga is." Scorecards measure agreement with each organization's selected votes, not who a member is. The text now says his record aligns much more closely with Heritage Action's preferences than with LCV's, and explains what a scorecard does and doesn't measure. This change was made earlier the same day without a log entry. Update: Heritage Action's posted session score is now 85% (previously 84%). |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | H.R. 1 impact | Correction. Earlier the same day, without a log entry, the heading "What gets cut to pay for it" was replaced because it implied the Medicaid and SNAP cuts financed the law. The page also paired about 119,000 Medicaid-covered residents, from an older data vintage, with the work requirements without saying most can't be subject to them. The section now itemizes CBO's components: a $4.5 trillion revenue decrease; spending increases (about $150 billion defense, $129 billion homeland security, $46 billion Judiciary title); reductions (roughly $900 billion Medicaid, $187 billion SNAP, $284 billion mostly in student loans); and the $3.4 trillion net deficit increase ($4.1 trillion with interest). The SSA actuary's estimate is now labeled as measured against the 2025 Trustees baseline. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Trade & Manufacturing | Correction. The tariff table said the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariff was "imposed Feb. 10, 2025." The 25% steel tariff dates to 2018. The Feb. 10, 2025 proclamations took effect March 12. They ended the country exemptions, including Canada's and Mexico's, and raised aluminum from 10% to 25%. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Home, Priorities index, H.R. 1 impact, Alliances & Trade | Update. District and state Census figures were re-verified against data.census.gov and are now cited to specific ACS 2024 tables (DP03, DP05, S2701, S2704, C27007) at the Census Bureau rather than a third-party presentation. No figure changed. The homepage map caption now describes MI-4's share of Berrien County as its northern part (about a quarter of the county's land area), not "a small northern corner." On Alliances & Trade, the 2023–2024 Michigan-Canada trade source was unreachable at review, and the page now says so. The Senate companion to the UNLOCK AUKUS Act (S. 4709) is noted as placed on the Senate calendar July 27, 2026. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Congressional Responsibility | Correction. The earlier version's war-powers analysis said Huizenga's record "doesn't show a partisan double standard," based on votes from 2023 on. His earlier record in the old MI-2 district shows otherwise. Under President Obama in 2011, he voted to direct removal of U.S. forces from Libya (H.Con.Res. 51), to limit funds for that operation (H.R. 2278), and against authorizing it (H.J.Res. 68). He has voted against every removal resolution since 2019. The page now adds an "Earlier record: MI-2, 2011–2020" section covering war powers, oversight, appropriations (including House v. Burwell and the 2019 border emergency), and delegation. The cross-administration table and analysis now cover four administrations. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Congressional Responsibility, Priorities index, Methodology | Update. Published the Congressional Responsibility priority. The Priorities index's three-part test is reworded (district relevance, long-term durability, congressional responsibility) so that none of the questions presumes a vote is right or wrong. The Methodology page adds inclusion rules for the congressional-responsibility test, applied identically to administrations of both parties. The Articles index entry for this topic changes from "Scoped, not started" to Published. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Voting Record | Update. The war-powers section said no public statement from Huizenga explaining those votes had turned up. Further research found a June 3, 2026 Fox & Friends First interview in which, according to the network's summary, he called the Iran resolution a "political game." That's now cited as a secondary source. The section also now notes that the Senate adopted H.Con.Res. 86 on June 23, 2026 (50–48), and that the administration's position is that such resolutions lack the force of law. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Committee & Legislative Record | Update. The Foreign Affairs card listed the committee assignment but not his subcommittee posts. It now notes that he chairs the Subcommittee on South and Central Asia and sits on the Africa subcommittee, per the House Clerk's Sept. 2, 2026 member data. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Committee & Legislative Record | Correction. The earlier version said the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) passed the House "with more than 70 Democrats crossing over." The House Clerk's record for Roll 199 (July 17, 2025) shows 78 Democrats voting yes, and the page now gives the exact count. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Trade & Manufacturing, H.R. 1 impact | Update. Checked the pages' Ottawa County references against the Census Bureau's 119th Congress district file. Zeeland (city and township) is entirely in MI-4, and so are Hudsonville, Jamestown, and Blendon. About 91% of Georgetown Township (Jenison) by land area is in MI-4, and the rest is in MI-3. The MillerKnoll and SALT passages now cite the file and name the specific communities. No substantive claim changed. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Trade & Manufacturing, Alliances & Trade | Correction. An update earlier the same day said Congress "never" voted on the tariffs, and that the IEEPA tariffs stayed in place "without a floor vote." The House voted 219–211 on Feb. 11, 2026 to end the Canada tariff emergency (H.J.Res. 72), with Huizenga voting no. The 2025 House rules that blocked such votes (H.Res. 211, 313, 354, and 707) and the failed Feb. 2026 rule (H.Res. 1042) are now covered. The August 2026 Section 338 tariffs on Canada are added. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Alliances & Trade | Correction. The Ukraine section called Huizenga's silence on the April 2024 vote "unusual even by this site's own findings," but the site's own vote tables show no statement for most votes. The sentence is removed. The section now includes his Sept. 2023 yes vote on Ukraine security assistance (H.R. 5692), his June 2026 no vote on the Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 2913), and his public comments. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Entitlement Durability | Correction. The estimate that the Social Security Fairness Act moves trust-fund exhaustion about six months earlier was attributed to SSA's Chief Actuary. It comes from CBO (Nov. 2024). An unsourced "$233 billion including interest" figure is removed. CRFB's 4.6-point payroll-tax estimate is replaced with the 2026 Trustees' 4.42 points. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Active Representation, Voting Record | Correction. The Responsible Budgeting Act was listed among bills Huizenga is "sponsoring." Rep. Scott Peters is the lead sponsor (H.R. 1092), and Huizenga is an original cosponsor. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Home | Correction. A 9-point 2016 presidential margin for the district was cited without a source and has been removed. The remaining 2020 and 2024 margins are now attributed to Ballotpedia and the Cook Political Report and labeled as secondary. Huizenga's 55.1% is now cited to the House Clerk's official election statistics. "As Ottawa County trends less red" is removed as a causal claim. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Trade & Manufacturing | Update. County manufacturing figures are now ACS 2024 (Allegan 25.1%; Van Buren 8,125 residents, previously given as 7,970 jobs) and are described as counting where workers live. An undated Perrigo headcount ("3,000+") is removed. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Voting Record | Update. Every vote meeting the published selection criteria since January 2023 has been added from House Clerk records: foreign assistance, final defense authorizations, debt-limit and rescissions bills, emergency-powers and tariff votes, 12 war-powers resolutions, and all 40 appropriations and stopgap passage votes. H.Con.Res. 93 is now shown as agreed to (220–204). The Laken Riley Act rows are relabeled: H.R. 29 was the House bill, and S. 5 became law. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Site-wide | Update. Applied the editorial standards throughout. Removed language that graded votes ("blowout," "went nowhere," "maintenance, not applause"). Marked the author's judgments as first-person. Added primary-source links (CBO, SSA, CMS, Treasury, USTR, Congress.gov, GovInfo). Added Huizenga's stated rationale, or said that none was found, next to critical findings. Specified that H.R. 1's Medicaid work requirements apply to expansion adults, and corrected the SALT cap description. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Active Representation, Alliances & Trade | Correction. The Strategic Ports Reporting Act was listed as "Enacted as part of H.R. 8800." The FY2027 defense authorization has passed only the House (216–212, July 22, 2026), so the provision isn't law. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Alliances & Trade | Correction. The earlier version said neither the Section 232 nor the "Liberation Day" tariffs exempted Canada or Mexico. Both were left out of the April 2025 reciprocal tariffs and faced separate IEEPA tariffs instead, with goods that qualify under USMCA exempted. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Trade & Manufacturing, Alliances & Trade | Update. The IEEPA tariffs were described as current policy, although the Supreme Court struck them down on Feb. 20, 2026 (Learning Resources v. Trump). The tariff coverage now includes the ruling, the Section 122 tariff that replaced them and expired July 24, 2026, the Section 301 duties now in effect, and the Section 232 auto, auto-parts, and furniture tariffs. The reciprocal tariffs' top announced rate is corrected from 46% to 50%. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Fiscal Responsibility, H.R. 1 impact | Correction. CBO's $3.4 trillion estimate for H.R. 1 was described as including debt-service costs. It excludes them; with interest, CBO's figure is $4.1 trillion. Fiscal Responsibility also gave "$4.5 trillion, per CBO's dynamic estimate" for making the temporary provisions permanent. CBO's figure is $5.0 trillion including interest, and it isn't a dynamic estimate. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Fiscal Responsibility | Correction. $2.13 trillion in deficit reduction was attributed to CBO for the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act. CBO's estimate is $1.5 trillion; about $2.1 trillion was a high-end scenario from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The page's comparison changes from "one and a half times" to about 2.7 times. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Entitlement Durability | Correction. A "$5.7 trillion" total added a 2017 tax-law estimate that included interest to an H.R. 1 estimate that didn't. Both are now counted with interest ($1.9–2.3 trillion and $4.1 trillion). The page also said both votes were cast "with none of the offsetting revenue or spending cuts," although H.R. 1 included about $1.1 trillion in Medicaid and SNAP reductions. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Committee & Legislative Record, Active Representation | Correction. The earlier version said the Financial Institutions subcommittee "hasn't produced a comparable standalone bill yet." H.R. 6955, the Main Street Capital Access Act, passed the House 270–155 on July 21, 2026 with two Huizenga-authored measures, and it's now covered. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | H.R. 1 impact | Update. A July 2025 projection of FY2026 state budget cuts was presented as current. The page now labels it a projection and notes that Michigan's FY2026 budget was enacted Oct. 7, 2025. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Home, District Economics | Update. The Michigan unemployment rate is updated from April to August 2026 (5.0%, against 4.1% nationally), now cited to BLS directly. The outdated "Coming up" text and DataUSA references are replaced. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Methodology | Update. Published ten editorial standards covering primary sourcing, data years, legislative stages, fact vs. analysis, counterevidence, causal language, vote characterization, placement of qualifications, review dates, and this log. Existing pages will be reviewed against them. Any substantive change that results will be logged here. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Active Representation | Correction. The earlier version incorrectly stated that the CLARITY Act became law. It passed the House in July 2025 but has not been enacted. Only the GENIUS Act was signed into law. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Alliances & Trade | Correction. The earlier version said the 2023–2024 decline in Michigan-Canada trade coincided with tariff actions that didn't begin until 2025. The figure is now presented only as pre-tariff context. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Entitlement Durability | Correction. Projections were labeled as the 2025 Trustees Report but used the 2026 report's OASI date, and the benefit-cut figures (24% Social Security, 12% Medicare HI) were outdated. Everything now uses the 2026 Trustees Reports (about 22% and 11%). |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Agriculture | Correction. The earlier version said "nearly all" of the Southwest Fruit District's counties sit inside MI-4. Cass County isn't in MI-4, and Berrien and Kalamazoo are only partly in it. The piece also claimed without sourcing that the district "holds most of the acreage," and it attributed 77% of U.S. tart cherry production to the Southwest Fruit District. That's roughly Michigan's statewide share, and most of it is grown in northwest Michigan. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Home, H.R. 1 impact | Update. District figures standardized on ACS 2024 1-year estimates. The H.R. 1 page previously used an older vintage via DataUSA (population 778,930, income $74,722, Medicaid 15.3%, poverty 11.8%). The homepage previously cited a Wikipedia district profile, and its unsourced rural/urban split has been removed. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Home | Correction. The earlier version said the President's margin in the district had "narrowed every cycle since 2016," but cited margins of 9, 4, and 6 points, which widened from 2020 to 2024. It also described Huizenga's 55.1% vote share as a "win margin." Both are now worded accurately, and the electoral paragraph has been reframed as descriptive context. |
| Sept. 23, 2026 | Voting Record | Update. The September 2025 CR entry no longer says the House bill "triggered" the shutdown. It now describes the sequence of events. The vote-selection criteria are now stated explicitly. |