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S. 4394 — Promoting Police Leadership Act

6%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Promoting Police Leadership Act — on the calendar; 13% to reach the floor, 6% to become law.

13%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
47%
survives downstream
=
6%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 66% 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 74 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 51–97 (quartiles 57–92). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 66% (simple-majority P = 97%).

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% 77 [52–98] 99%
passage95% 74 [51–97] 97%

Receipts

Sponsor: John Cornyn (R). Latest action (2026-05-19): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 414.
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).