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Republican · Ohio House, district 78

Serving since Jan 1, 2017OH 2025–26 session

Portrait of Matt Huffman, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
100%
of sponsored bills got out of committee, in the top 5% of the Ohio House

100% of 27 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Ohio House is 58%. Ranks 2nd of 98, where 1st is the highest share.

The share of bills Huffman sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Ohio House. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.

At a glance

6 measures against the Ohio House. Huffman reported $2.2M in the 2026 cycle, in the top 5% of State House Republicans (median $33.7K). Huffman sits at +0.56 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 81% of State House Republicans.

The measures on which Huffman sits furthest from the middle of the Ohio House, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Out of committee

100%

Ohio House average 58% · ranks 2nd of 98

Itemized, 2026

$2.2M

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 6th of 2,521

CSIP ideology

+0.56

More conservative than 81% of State House Republicans · ± 0.04

From Ohio, 2026

79%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1936th of 2,335 State House Republicans

Party unity

100%

Ohio House average 93.3% · ranks 23rd of 98 · 0 votes against the majority of Ohio House Republicans

Attendance

100%

Ohio House average 100% · ranks 50th of 98 · 313 roll calls

Peer group: Ohio House. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Huffman, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Huffman is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Huffman says

Huffman talks about policy less than 98% of State House Republicans. Policy discussion in 0% of 1 statements, against 32% for the average State House Republican; 780th of 792.

An AI model reads each of Huffman’s 1 statements in the OH 2025–26 session (1 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State House Republicans and ranked among them.

Kinds of statement

Share of statements carrying each label, the OH 2025–26 session

0%80%
Huffman
Peers
Rank
Personal attacks0 statements
0%
3%
643rd of 792
Policy criticism0 statements
0%
9%
736th of 792
Policy discussion0 statements
0%
32%
780th of 792
Bipartisanship0 statements
0%
2%
678th of 792
Credit claiming0 statements
0%
13%
764th of 792
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Huffman's share of statements in each category against the State House Republicans average.
RowHuffmanPeers
Personal attacks0%3%
Policy criticism0%9%
Policy discussion0%32%
Bipartisanship0%2%
Credit claiming0%13%
1

statements classified

1 posts on X.

posts on X: 1 (100.0%)posts on X 1
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Huffman's statements by source
PartValue
posts on X1
How to read the bars

The thick bar is Huffman; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Huffman does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.

Extreme labels

Huffman used no extreme labels in 1 statements. The peer average is 1.4%.

No extreme labels in this window.

Who gets the labels

Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements

No targets recorded.

What an extreme label is

Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.

Month by month

Share of statements per month, the OH 2025–26 session

No month in this window has 10 or more statements, too few to chart month by month.

How to read the strips

Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the OH 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 17 months are hatched here; 16 of them have no statements.

Examples by category

Up to five recent statements in each category

Category

Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.

No statements in this category in this window.

All 1 statements

Newest first, the OH 2025–26 session

The full feed

Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 1 posts on X.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the OH 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Huffman sits at +0.56 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 81% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.51 to +0.60, which understates the uncertainty; from 1,323 donors and 572 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

+0.56

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.51 to +0.60. From 1,323 donors and 572 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Huffman +0.6State House Republicans +0.4Ohio House +0.3All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Huffman, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Huffman’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Huffman sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Huffman +0.6Ohio Housemedian +0.3All State Housemedian +0.1
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Huffman's CSIP score of +0.56 placed against State House Republicans, Ohio House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Huffman
State House Republicans2917+0.481%
Ohio House99+0.384%
All State House5324+0.190%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Huffman in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Huffman.

Back to topNext: Money

Money

Huffman reported $2.2M in the 2026 cycle, 65.2 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 79% of itemized individual money came from Ohio.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$2.2M

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 447 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)Individuals (itemized): $1.0M (45.9%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)PACs and other committees: $1.2M (54.1%)
  • Individuals (itemized)46 squares$1.0M
  • PACs and other committees54 squares$1.2M
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Sources of Huffman's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$1.0M45.9%
PACs and other committees$1.2M54.1%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2020 cycle: $1.6M$1.6M20202022 cycle: $1.5M$1.5M20222024 cycle: $2.1M$2.1M20242026 cycle: $2.2M$2.2M2026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Huffman's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2020 cycle$1.6M
2022 cycle$1.5M
2024 cycle$2.1M
2026 cycle$2.2M

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 79% came from Ohio.

  1. Ohio$801.6K
  2. Florida$39.3K
  3. Tennessee$30.0K
  4. Michigan$28.8K
  5. District of Columbia$17.1K

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: $10.0KWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: $8,021ILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: $28.8KMINew York: $1,041NYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: $5MAOregon: $10.0KORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: $200INOhio: $801.6KOHPennsylvania: $3,000PANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: $11.0KCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: $500CONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: $11.3KKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: $3,250VAMaryland: $15.0KMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: $1,500AZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: $30.0KTNNorth Carolina: $2,500NCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: $17.1KDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: $6,000LAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: $2,500GAHawaii: no dataHITexas: $6,750TXFlorida: $39.3KFL
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Huffman's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Ohio$801.6K
Florida$39.3K
Tennessee$30.0K
Michigan$28.8K
District of Columbia$17.1K
Maryland$15.0K
Kentucky$11.3K
California$11.0K
Washington$10.0K
Oregon$10.0K
Illinois$8,021
Texas$6,750
Louisiana$6,000
Virginia$3,250
Pennsylvania$3,000
North Carolina$2,500
Georgia$2,500
Arizona$1,500
New York$1,041
Colorado$500
Indiana$200
Massachusetts$5
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
WisconsinNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
UtahNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
West VirginiaNo data
DelawareNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
South CarolinaNo data
OklahomaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
HawaiiNo data
447

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

79%

from Ohio

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Ohio. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. RETIRED$69.9K 47 donors
  2. THOMARIOS CONSTRUCTION$23.5K 3 donors
  3. BYERS MINTON & ASSOC LLC$13.4K 3 donors
  4. COSGROVE JONHENRY$7,500 3 donors
  5. CHW ADVISORS$6,760 3 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. NISOURCE INC. PAC$33.2K
  2. OHIO BANK PAC$33.2K
  3. OSANA NURSE ANESTHETISTS PAC$32.1K
  4. VISTRA EMPLOYEE PAC$29.1K
  5. BEER & WINE PAC$28.0K

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Huffman voted with the majority of Ohio House Republicans on 100% of party-line votes and missed none of 313 roll calls. Ohio House on average: 93.3% party unity, 100% attendance. Across all roll calls, Huffman never voted against the majority of Ohio House Republicans.

313 roll calls Huffman could vote on in the OH 2025–26 session, compared with Ohio House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Huffman voted with the majority of Ohio House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

0

votes against the majority of Ohio House Republicans

Party unity 100%, Ohio House average 93.3%, ranks 23rd of 98. 313 roll calls in the OH 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Huffman, the thin grey bar the Ohio House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Huffman
Peers
Rank
Attendance
100%
100%
50th of 98
Party unity
100%
93.3%
23rd of 98
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Huffman's attendance and party unity against Ohio House.
RowHuffmanPeers
Attendance100%100%
Party unity100%93.3%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the OH 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Oct 1, 2026
HB 519
Prohibit specified actions with intent to steal a motor vehicle
Concurred in Senate amendments
YeaWith majoritypassD 15–16 · R 63–0Democrats 15 yea, 16 nay; Republicans 63 yea, 0 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 11, 2026
HB 105
Revise non-recourse litigation funding agreement regulations
Concurred in Senate amendments
YeaWith majoritypassD 20–11 · R 62–1Democrats 20 yea, 11 nay; Republicans 62 yea, 1 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 11, 2026
HB 173
Regards entities providing behind-the-meter utility services
Concurred in Senate amendments
YeaWith majoritypassD 1–29 · R 55–6Democrats 1 yea, 29 nay; Republicans 55 yea, 6 naymuch discussed
Jun 11, 2026
SB 315
Enact the Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act
Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 25–8 · R 63–2Democrats 25 yea, 8 nay; Republicans 63 yea, 2 naybecame law · party crossover
Jun 11, 2026
SB 450
Make capital appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2028
Passed
YeaWith majoritypassD 33–0 · R 62–3Democrats 33 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 62 yea, 3 naybecame law
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Huffman most often

  1. Ty MathewsR310 shared votes100%
  2. Adam BirdR312 shared votes100%
  3. David ThomasR313 shared votes100%
  4. Jim HoopsR309 shared votes100%
  5. Ty MooreR212 shared votes100%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Huffman least often

  1. Tristan RaderD270 shared votes75%
  2. Juanita BrentD252 shared votes76%
  3. Munira AbdullahiD277 shared votes77%
  4. Desireè TimsD274 shared votes78%
  5. Darnell BrewerD282 shared votes79%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

OH 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Huffman sponsored 27 bills in the OH 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 1 other. 100% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Ohio House average 58%; 2nd of 98).

The bills Huffman sponsored and cosponsored in the OH 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the OH 2025–26 session

Sponsored27 billsSponsored, Introduced: 2727Sponsored, In committee: 2727Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 2727Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 55Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored1 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 11Cosponsored, In committee: 11Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 11Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 11Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Huffman sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored27272750
Cosponsored11110
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Huffman sponsored, ochre blocks bills Huffman cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

100%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Ohio House average 58%. Ranks 2nd of 98.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Huffman, by number of shared bills in the OH 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Dani Isaacsohn5
  2. Allison Russo3
  3. Rob McColley3
  4. Nickie Antonio2
  5. Bill Roemer1
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Huffman’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
HR 544Relative to the election of Sean Hutson to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Sharon Ray of the 66th House District.SponsorSep 30, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted Sep 30, 2026
HR 466Authorizing Forge Leadership Network to use the Ohio House Chambers to conduct its 2026 model legislature.SponsorJun 22, 2026Passed one chamberGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Adopted Jun 22, 2026
HR 408Relative to travel allowance.SponsorMay 13, 2026Passed one chamberGovernment Operations and Politics(model)Adopted May 13, 2026
HR 369In memory of L. Helen Rankin.SponsorMar 25, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted Mar 25, 2026
HR 357Authorizing the Ohio Youth Leadership Association to use the Ohio House Chambers to conduct its 2025 model legislature.SponsorMar 24, 2026Passed one chamberUnassignedAdopted Mar 24, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that has not changed in 90 days. Huffman’s official site had 0 pages when last crawled.

The lab crawls Huffman’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Huffman posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Huffman posted

No images from Huffman’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

61 turns, Jan 31, 2020 to Oct 29, 2025

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Huffman is most unusual among Ohio House, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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