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Senate Roll Call 460, 100th Congress · March 2, 1988

TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO S 1904, POLYGRAPH PROTECTION LAW, TO PERMIT LIE DETECTOR TESTS UNDER 1984 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE GUIDELINES.

57 yea · 35 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 8 nay
Republican17 yea · 27 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 “Worker priority”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment allowing tests under DoD guidelines preserves worker polygraph 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 (57)

Nay (35)

Not voting or present (8)

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