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H.R. 2289 — American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025

2%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

American Broadband Deployment Act — real floor momentum (44% to a vote, on the calendar, quiet for 52 days); 94% if called.

44%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
4%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 94% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 44% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 295 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 207–414 (quartiles 217–386). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

By floor procedure

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

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
passage38% 253 [198–383] 88%
suspension62% 321 [211–416] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R). Latest action (2026-04-15): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 532.
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).