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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