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Senate Roll Call 593, 100th Congress · June 9, 1988

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON HR 1212, POLYGRAPH PROTECTION ACT, A BILL TO PREVENT THE DENIAL OF EMPLOYMENT BY PROHIBITING LIE DETECTOR USE BY EMPLOYERS INVOLVED IN OR AFFECTING INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

68 yea · 24 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 1 nay
Republican21 yea · 23 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): Restricting employer polygraph testing expands 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 (70)

Nay (24)

Not voting or present (6)

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