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H.R. 7891 — Student Aid Fraud Oversight and Accountability Act of 2026

4%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Student Aid Fraud Oversight and Accountability Act — on the calendar; 24% to reach the floor, 4% to become law.

24%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
16%
survives downstream
=
4%
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 309 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 208–415 (quartiles 228–396). 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% 279 [187–403] 89%
suspension62% 327 [213–417] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Glenn Thompson (R). Latest action (2026-05-26): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 582.
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).