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Senate Roll Call 455, 100th Congress · March 2, 1988

TO AMEND S 1904, POLYGRAPH PROTECTION LAW, TO PERMIT THE USE OF ANOTHER "SCIENTIFICALLY VALID" METHODS OF TESTING FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE USE.

96 yea · 0 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat51 yea · 0 nay
Republican45 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1904 ↗

Polygraph Protection Act of 1987

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): Permitting additional substance testing methods expands employer testing rights at the expense of worker protections.

    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 (96)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (4)

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