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Senate Roll Call 463, 100th Congress · March 3, 1988

TO PASS HR 1212, POLYGRAPH PROTECTION ACT, A BILL TO RESTRICT THE USE OF LIE DETECTOR TESTS ON EMPLOYEES AND JOB APPLICANTS.

69 yea · 27 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 1 nay
Republican19 yea · 26 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): Passage of a bill restricting polygraphs favors worker priority.

    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 (69)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (4)

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.