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H.R. 4638 — Federal Working Animal Protection Act

5%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

Federal Working Animal Protection Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 38% puts enactment at 5%.

passed the House
5%
downstream: Senate + President
=
5%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 60 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 43–89 (quartiles 51–70). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 38% (simple-majority P = 91%).

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% 61 [43–90] 93%
passage81% 59 [43–88] 91%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ken Calvert (R). Latest action (2026-03-19): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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).