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S. 827 — Supporting Rural Veterans Access to Healthcare Services Act

<1%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate reported

Supporting Rural Veterans Access to Healthcare Services Act — reported and queued, quiet for 311 days; 3% to reach the floor, <1% to become law.

3%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
37%
survives downstream
=
<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 64% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 3% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 73 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 50–97 (quartiles 56–91). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 64% (simple-majority P = 96%).

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% 75 [49–97] 96%
passage95% 72 [50–97] 96%

Receipts

Sponsor: Kevin Cramer (R). Latest action (2025-07-30): 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).