Congressional Record: September 30, 1999 (Senate)
Page S11737-S11750
AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED
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DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000
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BINGAMAN AMENDMENTS NOS. 1873-1874
(Ordered to lie on the table.)
Mr. BINGAMAN submitted two amendments intended to be proposed by him
to the bill, S. 1650, supra; as follows:
Amendment No. 1873
At the appropriate place in the bill add the following:
SEC. . STUDY OF CONFOUNDING BIOPHYSIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON
POLYGRAPHY.
From within funds made available by this Act, the Director
of the National Institutes of Health shall enter into
appropriate arrangements with the National Academy of
Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation
into the scientific validity of polygraphy as a screening
tool for federal and federal contractor personnel. Such study
and investigation shall include the effect of prescription
and non-prescription drugs on the validity of polygraph
tests, the potential for other techniques of suppressing or
altering conscious or autonomic physiological reflexes to
compromise the validity of polygraph tests, and differential
responses to polygraph tests according to biophysiological
factors that may vary according to age, gender, ethnic or
socioeconomic backgrounds, or other factors relating to
natural variability in human populations. The study and
investigation shall specifically address the scientific
validity of polygraph tests being proposed for use in
proposed rules published at 64 Fed. Reg. 45062 (August 18,
1999).
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Amendment No. 1874
At the appropriate place in the bill add the following:
SEC. . STUDY OF CONFOUNDING BIOPHYSIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON
POLYGRAPHY.
From within funds made available by this Act, the Director
of the National Institutes of Health shall enter into
appropriate arrangements with the National Academy of
Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation
into the scientific validity of polygraphy as a screening
tool for federal and federal contractor personnel. Such study
and investigation shall include the effect of prescription
and non-prescription drugs on the validity of polygraph
tests, the potential for other techniques of suppressing or
altering conscious or autonomic physiological reflexes to
compromise the validity of polygraph tests, and differential
responses to polygraph tests according to biophysiological
factors that may vary according to age, gender, ethnic or
socioeconomic backgrounds, or other factors relating to
natural variability in human populations. The study and
investigation shall specifically address the scientific
validity of polygraph tests being proposed for use in
proposed rules published at 64 Fed. Reg. 45062 (August 18,
1999).
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