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H.R. 1998 — Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2025

9%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

Sanction Sea Pirates Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 71% puts enactment at 9%.

passed the House
9%
downstream: Senate + President
=
9%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 72 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 45–97 (quartiles 58–89). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 71% (simple-majority P = 92%).

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% 76 [49–98] 95%
passage81% 70 [43–97] 91%

Receipts

Sponsor: Jonathan L. Jackson (D). Latest action (2025-06-24): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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).