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House Roll Call 479, 99th Congress · March 12, 1986

TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, HR 1524 TO PROVIDE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS.

173 yea · 241 nay12 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 196 nay
Republican134 yea · 47 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1524 ↗

Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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(0.80): Replacing a polygraph ban with regulation allows polygraph use, favoring employer 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 (177)

Nay (245)

Not voting or present (12)

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