“Resolved, That the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. [Joseph] McCarthy . . . repeatedly abused the subcommittee and its members who were trying to carry out assigned duties, thereby obstructing the constitutional processes of the Senate, and that this conduct of the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned.

“Sec 2. The Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy . . . in stating to the public press on November 13, 1954, that the chairman of the Select Committee (Mr. Watkins) was guilty of ‘the most unusual, most cowardly things I've ever heard of’ and . . . in characterizing the said committee as the ‘unwitting handmaiden,’ ‘involuntary agent’ and ‘attorneys-in-fact’ of the Communist Party and in charging that the said committee in writing its report ‘imitated Communist methods’ . . . acted contrary to senatorial ethics and tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute, to obstruct the constitutional processes of the Senate, and to impair its dignity; and such conduct is hereby condemned.”

--United States Senate Resolution 301, 1954

The excerpt could best be used as evidence by historians studying which of the following?

A The expansion of suburbs

B The decline of the Red Scare

C The emergence of the Soviet Union

D The development of a counterculture movement

"Red Scare", was a movement initiated by Joseph McCarthy that established violent investigations against any term or suspected of sympathizing with any element related to communism or the Soviet Union. During this period McCarthy became a well-known and sought-after name, but investigations and accusations against Communist sympathizers and allies were often abusive. McCarthy's rejection as senator marks the end of that period and the "Red Scare" movement.