The watergate crisis led to new laws intended to limit the power of the branch, including the ethics in government act, the fbi domestic security investigation guidelines act and the federal campaign act amendments

The correct answer is Executive branch.

The executive branch consists of the President and his cabinet members. After Nixon tried to hid several important recordings and pieces of information, citizens complained of a lack of transparency between the federal government and the citizens. With this in mind, Congress passed the aforementioned acts as a means to allow citizens to understand fully what organizations support specific candidates as well as giving the FBI the power to investigate wrongdoing in the federal government.

The answer should be b.