House Roll Call 391, 100th Congress · November 4, 1987

TO AMEND HR 1212, POLYGRAPH TESTS, TO PERMIT USE OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS IF THE TEST WAS ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY ONGOING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.

197 yea · 220 nay15 not voting or present

Democrat43 yea · 194 nay

Republican153 yea · 25 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 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): Allows employer polygraph testing during criminal investigations.
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 (198)

Nay (220)

Not voting or present (15)

Richard K. ArmeyDid not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
George Hanks BrownDid not vote
Robert Lawrence CoughlinDid not vote
Wilbur Clarence DanielDid not vote
John James DuncanDid not vote
Richard Andrew GephardtDid not vote
James John HowardDid not vote
Marcy KapturDid not vote
Jack French KempDid not vote
William O. LipinskiDid not vote
Douglas Wayne OwensDid not vote
Charles Elson Roemer IIIDid not vote
Patricia Scott SchroederDid not vote
Philip Riley SharpDid not vote

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