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House Roll Call 394, 100th Congress · November 4, 1987

TO PASS HR 1212, POLYGRAPH TESTS, A BILL TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF LIE DETECTORS BY EMPLOYERS INVOLVED IN OR AFFECTING INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

254 yea · 158 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat203 yea · 31 nay
Republican52 yea · 129 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 “Worker priority”

    model(0.95): Prohibits employers from using lie detector tests, prioritizing worker rights.

    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 (257)

Nay (161)

Not voting or present (15)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.