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S. 3138 — Veterans SPORT Act

4%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate reported

Veterans SPORT Act — reported and queued, quiet for 80 days; 11% to reach the floor, 4% to become law.

11%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
42%
survives downstream
=
4%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 53% 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 67 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 45–96 (quartiles 53–85). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 53% (simple-majority P = 93%).

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 [49–97] 96%
passage95% 67 [45–95] 93%

Receipts

Sponsor: Jim Banks (R). Latest action (2026-03-18): Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 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).