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H.R. 659 — Veterans Law Judge Experience Act of 2025

21%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

Veterans Law Judge Experience Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 62% puts enactment at 21%.

passed the House
21%
downstream: Senate + President
=
21%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 68 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 41–96 (quartiles 55–84). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 62% (simple-majority P = 89%).

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 [47–96] 93%
passage81% 67 [39–96] 88%

Receipts

Sponsor: Julia Brownley (D). Latest action (2026-01-26): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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).