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H.R. 5634 — Veterans Flight Training Responsibility Act of 2025

16%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Veterans Flight Training Responsibility Act — real floor momentum (45% to a vote, reported and queued, quiet for 23 days); 96% if called.

45%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
36%
survives downstream
=
16%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 96% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 45% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 323 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 209–417 (quartiles 248–403). 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% 289 [196–412] 90%
suspension62% 343 [219–418] 99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R). Latest action (2026-05-14): Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
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).