H.R. 8882 — Main Street Competes Act

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Main Street Competes Act — would clear the House (96%) but only 2% to ever get the vote.

reaches a floor vote

>99%

passes if voted (stage model)

20%

survives downstream

<1%

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 96% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 2% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 335 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 211–417 (quartiles 277–402). 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:

Procedure	Likelihood	Projected yea	Passes
passage	38%	299 [199–414]	91%
suspension	62%	356 [231–418]	>99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Hillary J. Scholten (D). Latest action (2026-06-03): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 595.
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).