H.R. 6547 — Least Cost Exception Act

2%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Least Cost Exception Act — on the calendar, quiet for 124 days; 24% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

24%

reaches a floor vote

>99%

passes if voted (stage model)

survives downstream

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 95% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 24% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 311 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 208–416 (quartiles 229–394). 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%	279 [200–404]	90%
suspension	62%	331 [214–417]	98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Mike Flood (R). Latest action (2026-02-02): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 405.
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).