Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt from paragraph 9 of the text.

This is not the first time we have extended this invitation to Congress. In President Clinton's first term, we spelled out our principles for strengthening the Clean Water Act. Our principles were right then, and they're right now—especially when it comes to controlling non-point source pollution. Unfortunately, the 104th Congress went in the opposite direction—advancing legislation that was rightly called the "Dirty Water Bill," and would have weakened the law, reversed our gains, and fouled our water. . . . We ask Members of Congress, in honor of 25 years of overwhelming national support for Clean Water, to abandon these dubious bills on property rights, and instead take up bills that protect our clean water rights—to work with us, as they did in passing the Safe Drinking Water Act last year, to strengthen and reauthorize the Clean Water Act.

What point of view does Gore convey in this excerpt?

A.
Gore believes that Congress has been helpful in the past, but may stop offering support for clean water legislation in the future.

B.
Gore believes that Congress wants to support clean water legislation.

C.
Gore believes that Congress has been inconsistent in its support for clean water legislation, but it has an opportunity to do the right thing.

D.
Gore believes that there is little point in asking Congress to change its mind about clean water legislation.