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House Roll Call 389, 100th Congress · November 4, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1212, POLYGRAPH TESTS, TO PERMIT USE OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS ON EMPLOYEES OR POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES IN THE BANKING AND SECURITIES INDUSTRY.

184 yea · 237 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 203 nay
Republican148 yea · 33 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 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 in banking and securities, expanding employer control.

    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 (186)

Nay (238)

Not voting or present (9)

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