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House Roll Call 481, 99th Congress · March 12, 1986

TO ADOPT HR 1524, A BILL TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF POLYGRAPH TESTING BY EMPLOYERS INVOLVED IN OR AFFECTING INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

236 yea · 173 nay17 not voting or present
Democrat195 yea · 41 nay
Republican43 yea · 136 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 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 “Worker priority”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting employer polygraph testing advances worker rights and protection.

    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 (240)

Nay (177)

Not voting or present (17)

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.