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H.R. 5342 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriat… — must-pass class. On the calendar, quiet for 267 days; the <1% reflects timing risk, not whether something passes.

<1%
reaches a floor vote
×
98%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
54%
survives downstream
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<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 198–413 (quartiles 217–374). 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% 271 [186–404] 86%
suspension62% 308 [202–414] 93%

Receipts

Sponsor: Harold Rogers (R). Latest action (2025-09-12): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 228.
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).