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H.R. 5576 — Enhancing Geothermal Production on Federal Lands Act

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Enhancing Geothermal Production on Federal Lands Act — would clear the House (92%) but only 11% to ever get the vote.

11%
reaches a floor vote
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99%
passes if voted (stage model)
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8%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 92% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 11% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 287 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 205–412 (quartiles 215–372). 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% 255 [196–388] 88%
suspension62% 306 [207–414] 94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Russ Fulcher (R). Latest action (2026-03-05): Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 16.
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).