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Timothy Roemer: “As long as the gentleman says the best standards are in the private sector and everybody agrees on that, that we do not…”

On the recordJune 9, 1999
As long as the gentleman says the best standards are in the private sector and everybody agrees on that, that we do not then have this jumping back and forth between established best standards for one and their administering 50 or 60 percent of the polygraphs and the FBI or somebody else is doing the remaining 40 percent, and we know there is a discrepancy between or differences between the administration of those tests. I think it is very important that we establish a uniform standard of policy here as to who is administering it, and if it is the FBI, maybe we do not contract out. If the established science is in the private sector, then that is the uniform standard that we establish, and I look forward to working with the gentleman. I am not going to oppose this amendment.
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Timothy Roemer
Indiana

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Discussing the need for uniform standards in polygraph testing during a legislative debate.

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