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S. 9 — Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

2%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act — on the calendar, quiet for 460 days; 7% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

7%
reaches a floor vote
×
98%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
24%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 46% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 7% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 64 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 49–92 (quartiles 52–79). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 46% (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% 68 [49–95] 96%
passage95% 64 [49–92] 96%

Receipts

Sponsor: Tommy Tuberville (R). Latest action (2025-03-03): Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)
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).