Dodd tweets: Financial bill opponents' claim is 'poppycock'

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) has one word for claims that his financial bill is a partisan measure: "poppycock."

Dodd took to the Senate floor Wednesday to rebuke his opponents charges against the bill. He tweeted perhaps the most memorable line from the floor speech just after he delivered it:

"To label it as nothing more than a partisan debate and suggest all we have done is to perpetuate too big to fail is just popycock."

Debate over the financial reform bill reached a boiling point Wednesday. President Barack Obama met with GOP and Democratic leaders and Congress about the bill, urging them to produce a final copy.

The administration considers the measure designed to rein in Wall Street one of its top priorities.

Republican leaders have objected to the proposal, saying among other charges that it would create a "permanent bailout" for large financial firms.

Dodd also dismissed those claims in his speech.

As a side note, Dodd isn't the first politician to use the peculiar term this Congress.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said last month that racial epithets directed at black members of Congress during healthcare protests were "poppycock compared to what we experienced in the 1960s."