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H.R. 5831 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 306 South Main Street in Waupaca, Wisconsin, as the "Master Sergeant Melvin O. Handrich Post Office Building".

73%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located… — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 52% puts enactment at 73%.

passed the House
73%
downstream: Senate + President
=
73%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 67 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 48–95 (quartiles 53–84). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 52% (simple-majority P = 94%).

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the Senate would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference19% 70 [49–96] 96%
passage81% 66 [47–94] 94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Tony Wied (R). Latest action (2026-04-15): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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).