 She had worked with Thomas at the commission and was a close friend.During his contentious confirmation, she spoke out on his behalf and helped edit "The Real Anita Hill", a book by David Brock that savaged Hill and portrayed her charges as a political dirty trick.From 1995–2000, she was executive director of the Office of Congressional Compliance, an independent authority established by Congress to oversee the new law requiring that Congress abide by many of the same workplace regulations that covered the rest of the nation.