House Democrats don't trust Senate Democrats, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said late this week.
The third-ranking House Democrat said that his members are suffering the consequences of the Senate's inaction, in perhaps the most direct assessment to date of the raw tensions between the House and Senate.
"The House, as you know, has some problems trusting the Senate," Clyburn said in an interview with Talk Radio News Service conducted Thursday and posted on Friday.
The majority whip said that many House Democrats' reelection fortunes are being hurt by the litany of deals with individual senators for a watered-down health reform bill to be able to pass through the Senate.
"I think what has happened to us is that Democrats have been defined by what the public sees going on in the Senate," Clyburn said.
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