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H.R. 7653 — Biodefense Diplomacy Enhancement Act

3%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Biodefense Diplomacy Enhancement Act — reported and queued, quiet for 72 days; 34% to reach the floor, 3% to become law.

34%
reaches a floor vote
×
98%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
9%
survives downstream
=
3%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 96% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 34% 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 209–416 (quartiles 239–396). 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 [204–408] 91%
suspension62% 339 [217–418] >99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Keith Self (R). Latest action (2026-03-26): Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 46 - 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).