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S. 2424 — THINK TWICE Act of 2025

4%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

THINK TWICE Act — on the calendar, quiet for 219 days; 11% to reach the floor, 4% to become law.

11%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
32%
survives downstream
=
4%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 58% 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 69 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 46–96 (quartiles 54–87). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 58% (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% 70 [48–96] 94%
passage95% 69 [46–96] 94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Pete Ricketts (R). Latest action (2025-10-30): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 238.
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).