Not Senate Judiciary members quoting Taylor Swift lyrics left and right. Good for them 😅
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Senator Klobuchar opened her remarks with a sly reference to "All Too Well," a fan favorite, at the start of the hearing. But Mike Lee quickly caught up, referencing "You Belong With Me" in his own opening.
Senator Blumenthal to Ticketmaster: “Ticketmaster had the temerity to imply that the debacle involved in pre-ticket sales was Taylor Swifts fault because she was failing to do too many concerts, and may I suggest respectfully that Ticketmaster ought to look in the mirror and say “I’m the problem, it’s me.” And the reason is quite simply that you are the ones ultimately responsible for the astronomically rising prices, the exorbitant hidden fees, the sold out shows, the bots and the scalpers.”
Senator Lee: “We’ve had a lot of talk in the last few rounds about restrictions on the ability of consumers, purchasers of a ticket, being able to sell it to someone else. A lot of people seem to think that somehow a solution, I think it’s a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”
Lee might have even outnumbered his colleagues, later referring to the idea of limits on ticket transfers as a "nightmare dressed like a daydream." He also ended his closing remarks with a reference to some of Swift's newest work.
"I have to throw out, in deference to my daughter Eliza, one more Taylor Swift quote," Lee said."Karma is a relaxing thought, aren't you envious for you it's not?"
Nuzzo, senior vice president of the think tank The James Madison Institute, chimed in during his testimony as a witness, referencing the last album that received a tour from Swift: "Reputation."
"A few million Taylor Swift fans would respond: ‘This is why we can’t have nice things,'" he said of Live Nation's market power.


























