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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 Sept. 23, 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.

DatePageWhat changed
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.