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H.R. 6698 — Board of Veterans Appeals Annual Report Transparency Act of 2025

11%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Board of Veterans Appeals Annual Report Transparency Act — reported and queued, quiet for 23 days; 38% to reach the floor, 11% to become law.

38%
reaches a floor vote
×
96%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
29%
survives downstream
=
11%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 95% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 38% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 312 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 208–417 (quartiles 230–397). 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% 280 [188–408] 88%
suspension62% 331 [214–418] 99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Keith Self (R). Latest action (2026-05-14): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) 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).