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H.R. 3959 — Protecting Private Job Creators Act

3%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Protecting Private Job Creators Act — on the calendar, quiet for 101 days; 37% to reach the floor, 3% to become law.

37%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
9%
survives downstream
=
3%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 96% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 37% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 312 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 209–416 (quartiles 230–395). 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% 276 [204–402] 92%
suspension62% 333 [215–418] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Troy Downing (R). Latest action (2026-02-25): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 448.
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).