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H.R. 1039 — Clear Communication for Veterans Claims Act

17%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

Clear Communication for Veterans Claims Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 60% puts enactment at 17%.

passed the House
17%
downstream: Senate + President
=
17%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 72 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 50–97 (quartiles 55–91). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 60% (simple-majority P = 97%).

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the Senate would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference19% 73 [51–98] 97%
passage81% 72 [50–97] 97%

Receipts

Sponsor: Tom Barrett (R). Latest action (2025-04-08): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).