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H.R. 8562 — To designate a building of the Chancery of the United States in Pristina, Kosovo, as the "Eliot L. Engel Building".

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

To designate a building of the Chancery of the United States in Prist… — would clear the House (96%) but only <1% to ever get the vote.

<1%
reaches a floor vote
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>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
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21%
survives downstream
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becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 96% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: <1% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 331 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 210–416 (quartiles 273–401). 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% 299 [196–413] 91%
suspension62% 351 [225–417] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ritchie Torres (D). Latest action (2026-05-13): Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 39 - 7.
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).