H.R. 4642 — Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act

37%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act — real floor momentum (62% to a vote, reported and queued, quiet for 80 days); 97% if called.

62%

reaches a floor vote

>99%

passes if voted (stage model)

60%

survives downstream

37%

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 97% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 62% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 316 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 210–416 (quartiles 236–397). 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:

Procedure	Likelihood	Projected yea	Passes
passage	38%	273 [205–397]	92%
suspension	62%	343 [218–418]	>99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ben Cline (R). Latest action (2026-03-18): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 39 - 1.
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).