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H.R. 4140 — Burma GAP Act

2%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Burma GAP Act — would clear the House (96%) but only 9% to ever get the vote.

9%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
21%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 96% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 9% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 336 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 212–417 (quartiles 283–403). 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% 303 [199–414] 92%
suspension62% 356 [231–418] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Gregory W. Meeks (D). Latest action (2025-07-22): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 5.
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).