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S. 1316 — Strong Communities Act of 2025

5%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Strong Communities Act — would clear the Senate (72%) but only 11% to ever get the vote.

11%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
41%
survives downstream
=
5%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 72% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 11% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 72 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 46–97 (quartiles 58–89). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 72% (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
conference5% 74 [52–97] 98%
passage95% 72 [46–97] 94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Gary C. Peters (D). Latest action (2025-05-20): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 82.
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).