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H.R. 3617 — Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act

3%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 45% puts enactment at 3%.

passed the House
3%
downstream: Senate + President
=
3%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 63 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 46–92 (quartiles 52–78). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 45% (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% 65 [45–94] 91%
passage81% 63 [46–92] 93%

Receipts

Sponsor: John James (R). Latest action (2026-02-12): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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).