Human rights advocates have hailed the law as instrumental in preventing human rights violators from receiving American taxpayer-financed assistance.
While the House legislation applies only to human rights violators from Russia, the Senate version would apply globally.
"The idea was not that we were going to find all visa violators from the Middle East," he said.
Ms. Rousseff, who takes office on Jan . 1 vowed in the campaign to bring human rights violators from the dictatorship to justice.
Initially the Senate faced some pressure to pass a bill that punished human rights violators from all nations, not just those who are Russian.
The deportation case against General Vides was brought by prosecutors from the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, a unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement created in 2003 to focus on preventing rights violators from entering this country and deporting those already here.
The polygraph was judged thoroughly unreliable as a screening tool; its accuracy in "distinguishing actual or potential security violators from innocent test takers" was deemed "insufficient to justify reliance on its use".
Legislation from Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, and Representative Ed Whitfield, Republican of Kentucky, would ban race-day medications, and ban trainers who are repeat violators from the sport altogether.
He has also asserted that under international law, the United States government cannot retroactively use a 2004 law barring human rights violators from entering or living in the country to deport him for events in the 1980s.
He opined that, on the issue of dissuading Treaty violators from withdrawing, the Conference could at least "raise awareness" by "developing a common sense that this is a problem".
