Options:
a) The speaker praises the Senate for being such a fine deliberative body.
b) The speaker is too critical of the Senators.
c) The speaker thinks the Senators should be exempt from punishment.
d) The speaker appeals to a sense of honor before criticizing the Senators for destroying people’s reputation.
Answer:
d) The speaker appeals to a sense of honor before criticizing the Senators for destroying people's reputation.
Step-by-step explanation:
Indeed, we can make this conclusion because we note the sense of honor expressed in her words,
"I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American.
The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world."
Then she started making criticisms of the Senators for destroying people's reputation,
"But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity..."