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H.Res. 237 — Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Education to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the reduction in force and other downsizing measures…

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Ed… — would clear the House (92%) 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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<1%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 92% 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 313 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 185–416 (quartiles 238–397). 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
resolution63% 282 [167–410] 87%
suspension37% 365 [233–418] >99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D). Latest action (2025-04-29): Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 25.
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).