H.R. 5247 — To provide for the International Security Affairs authorities of the Department of State.

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

To provide for the International Security Affairs authorities of the… — would clear the House (90%) but only 1% to ever get the vote.

reaches a floor vote

98%

passes if voted (stage model)

11%

survives downstream

<1%

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 90% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 1% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 294 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 200–413 (quartiles 216–378). 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%	258 [168–397]	82%
suspension	62%	316 [208–415]	95%

Receipts

Sponsor: Keith Self (R). Latest action (2025-09-18): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 19.
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).