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Senators randomly started quoting Meat Loaf at each other during a banking committee hearing

December 5, 2017

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You can't accuse members of the Senate Banking Committee of having a bad attitude. During a Tuesday hearing regarding the bipartisan Dodd-Frank rollback bill, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) gave us more than we deserve by introducing "the Meat Loaf minimum."

Sen. Sherrod Brown just now on the bipartisan Dodd-Frank roll back bill: "As Meat Loaf used to sing: 'two out of three ain't bad.' But this bill doesn't even meet the Meat Loaf minimum.”
— sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) December 5, 2017

After that, as The District Sentinel's Sam Knight observed, the hearing went nowhere fast:

Sen. John Neely Kennedy responds to this claim. "Meat Loaf also used to say: 'There ain't no Coupe DeVille in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.'"
— sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) December 5, 2017

Reuters' Pete Schroeder had a three-letter response to the fact that apparently nothing is sacred:

Not kidding. Meatloaf has now been quoted four times where a Senate committee is considering legislation impacting the financial sector.why
— Pete Schroeder (@peteschroeder) December 5, 2017

As Meat Loaf himself once so eloquently put it: "You took the words right out of my mouth."