It is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership in either the Legislative Branch or the Executive Branch of our Government.

What evidence does the author offer in the text to support this claim?
A) “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition.”
B) I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator.
C) “…leadership is so lacking that serious and responsible proposals are being made that national advisory commissions be appointed to provide such critically needed leadership.”
D) “It is strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and with full protection and yet we hold ourselves above the same type of criticism here on the Senate Floor.”