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House Roll Call 393, 100th Congress · November 4, 1987

TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE HR 1212, POLYGRAPH TESTS, TO PROVIDE STRICT GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF VOLUNTARY LIE DETECTOR TESTS AND PROVIDE SPECIFIC RIGHTS FOR POLYGRAPH EXAMINEES.

169 yea · 242 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 199 nay
Republican135 yea · 44 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(0.85): Allows voluntary polygraphs, weakening the total ban and prioritizing employers.

    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 (173)

Nay (245)

Not voting or present (15)

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