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House Roll Call 388, 100th Congress · November 4, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1212, POLYGRAPH TESTS, TO PERMIT USE OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS BY EMPLOYERS IN THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICES.

210 yea · 209 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat54 yea · 184 nay
Republican156 yea · 25 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1212 ↗

Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988

Policy area: Labor and Employment — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Labor & WagesA yea counts toward “Employer priority”

    model(0.95): Permits polygraph testing by security employers, favoring employer interests.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (212)

Nay (210)

Not voting or present (11)

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