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S. 1885 — Stop the Scroll Act

3%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate reported

Stop the Scroll Act — reported and queued, quiet for 53 days; 13% to reach the floor, 3% to become law.

13%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
25%
survives downstream
=
3%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 52% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 13% 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 47–96 (quartiles 53–85). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 52% (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% 72 [48–97] 94%
passage95% 67 [47–95] 94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Katie Boyd Britt (R). Latest action (2026-04-14): Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute 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).