(Please help this is for a test)
Read the passage.

"If it has taught us anything, it is that our present law-makers, as a body, are ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled; that the majority of them are, directly or indirectly, under the control of the very monopolies against whose acts we have been seeking relief."
― Ida Tarbell, The History Of The Standard Oil Company

What was the result of passages like the one shown?
Responses

A Government investigations and regulatory reforms were implemented.

B Reporters like Jacob Riis and David Graham Phillips were elected to Congress.

C Newspaper circulation increased but little else happened.

D Urban governments hired reporters to look for corruption.