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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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