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S. 1363 — New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act

2%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate reported

New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperat… — reported and queued, quiet for 171 days; 7% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

7%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
26%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 56% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 7% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 67 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 39–96 (quartiles 54–84). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 56% (simple-majority P = 88%).

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% 72 [46–97] 92%
passage95% 66 [38–96] 88%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ben Ray Luján (D). Latest action (2025-12-17): Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
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).