S. 972 — Fairness in Veterans' Education Act of 2025

5%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Fairness in Veterans' Education Act — on the calendar, quiet for 179 days; 13% to reach the floor, 5% to become law.

13%

reaches a floor vote

>99%

passes if voted (stage model)

38%

survives downstream

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 56% 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 69 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 47–96 (quartiles 54–87). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 56% (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:

Procedure	Likelihood	Projected yea	Passes
conference	5%	73 [49–97]	95%
passage	95%	69 [46–96]	94%

Receipts

Sponsor: Jim Banks (R). Latest action (2025-12-09): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 288.
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).