Mosbacher

“For the first time in history, a tool exists with which to correct the census and make it more accurate,” she told her boss, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher.

Mosbacher disagreed, rejecting the adjustment method in 1991.

Among the reasons given by Mr. Mosbacher, the commerce secretary, for rejecting the adjustment was that it might introduce its own inaccuracies into the data.

The undercount issue would ultimately put her at odds with her boss, the secretary of commerce, Robert Mosbacher.

A bureau steering committee voted in favor of the adjustment, and Bryant supported its recommendation, but Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher decided against using the adjustment method.