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H.R. 7661 — Stop the Sexualization of Children Act

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Stop the Sexualization of Children Act — would clear the House (94%, 22 cosponsors) but only 4% to ever get the vote.

4%
reaches a floor vote
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87%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
8%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 94% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 4% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 296 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 207–414 (quartiles 219–389). 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% 260 [201–383] 88%
suspension62% 318 [211–415] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Mary E. Miller (R). Latest action (2026-03-17): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 13.
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).