A former schools superintendent, Dr. McGill was president of the Educational Records Bureau, a nonprofit testing agency, for 16 years starting in 1972.
A separate test by Bureau Veritas, a testing lab in Buffalo, found little lead in the clear plastic pocket of the bib, but said that the lead in the colorful part of the bib was at levels high enough that minute amounts could transfer to a baby's fingers.
During the test, the bureau will also introduce questionnaires in Spanish.
To make matters worse, even when the prisoner meets its excessively strict tests, the bureau itself decides whether the prisoner should be set free — in effect usurping discretionary powers that Congress awarded the courts.
The bill, introduced by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is the committee's chairman, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, would require lie-detector tests for bureau employees working with secret information, expand the jurisdiction of the Justice Department's inspector general to include the bureau and protect F.B.I. employees under a federal whistle-blower law.
When the costly machines didn't function properly during tests, the bureau had to abandon them.
When the bureau tested bills with more intense colors, like purple and magenta, focus groups thought they looked fake.
The new cases are being made and tested by the bureau's successor agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, known as NIST.
Ed Welniak, chief of the income surveys branch, said a test by the bureau found differences in the way people answered different sets of income questions.
On the chopping block are tests of the bureau's plans and procedures for counting people on military bases, which was to have been part of the dress rehearsal at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
