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H.R. 981 — VETT Act

32%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

VETT Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 55% puts enactment at 32%.

passed the House
32%
downstream: Senate + President
=
32%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 69 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 47–95 (quartiles 53–86). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 55% (simple-majority P = 94%).

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the Senate would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference19% 70 [46–97] 94%
passage81% 68 [47–95] 94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Derrick Van Orden (R). Latest action (2025-04-10): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
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).