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H.R. 7273 — NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026

2%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

NASA Reauthorization Act — reported and queued, quiet for 122 days; 24% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

24%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
7%
survives downstream
=
2%
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 318 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 208–416 (quartiles 240–395). 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% 283 [191–407] 90%
suspension62% 340 [217–417] 99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Brian Babin (R). Latest action (2026-02-04): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 37 - 0.
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).