Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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Cir.1988). There, we adopted the Eleventh Circuit’s credit-as-true rule, holding that the Commissioner must accept, as a matter of law, a claimant’s subjective pain testimony if the ALJ fails to articulate sufficient reasons for refusing to credit it. Id. However, the holding in Varney II was specifically limited to cases “where there are no outstanding issues that must be resolved before a proper disability determination can be made, and where it is clear from the administrative record that the ALJ would be required to award benefits if the claimant’s excess pain testimony were credited.” Id. at 1401. Since Varney II, a split in authority has developed over whether the rule is mandatory or discretionary in’this Circuit. Compare, e.g., Lester v. Chater, 81 F.3d 821, 834 (9th Cir.1995) ; with Connett v. Barnhart, 340 F.3d 871, 876
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that when an alj improperly rejects a claimants testimony regarding his limitations and the claimant would be disabled if his testimony were credited the testimony must be credited as a matter of law
B. holding that the creditastrue rule is mandatory but only where the claimant would be disabled if his testimony were credited
C. holding that because the court credited defense testimony over prosecution testimony and there was a reasonable basis in the record for the trial court finding that an agreement existed between the defense and the prosecution the decision could not be disturbed on appeal
D. holding that the alj properly discounted a claimants testimony about the extent of his pain and limitations based on his ability to travel
E. holding a proffer of testimony is required to preserve the issue of whether testimony was properly excluded by the trial judge and an appellate court will not consider error alleged in the exclusion of testimony unless the record on appeal shows fairly what the excluded testimony would have been
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.