With about 30 hours to go in the legislative session, Senate Democrats have apparently had enough of the House getting its way on everything.

"There's a meltdown over family leave," Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown just told me.

In a closed door caucus, Senate Democrats told Brown they did not want to accept the family leave bill that the House passed. Senate leaders had agreed to that version, which does not specify a funding source for the mandated leave program.

Brown said that her colleagues made it clear they had grown weary of House Speaker Frank Chopp and his big Democratic majority dictating much of what has happened this session. They want the original Senate version, which would have been funded by an employee payroll tax.

Lobbyists pushing for the family leave bill said they weren't worried, and that there were still the votes in the Senate to pass it. Brown said that's not necessarily the case.

"It didn't go well in my caucus," Brown said. Should the lobbyists be worried? "I think so," Brown said.

MORE: I was just on the Senate floor talking to Democratic senators. They are ticked at the House. Sen. Darlene Fairley, D-Lake Forest Park, and never one to mince words, said that many members were angered by a last-minute, must-pass, bill that Chopp wanted. The Senate passed that earlier this evening. It authorizes "community preservation and development authorities," and creates the first one covering Seattle's International District and Pioneer Square.

Sponsor Sharon Tomiko Santos, D-Seattle, said the bill was ncessary, in part, to try to mitigate effects of the baseball park and football stadium in the area. The bill was a priority of hers, and Chopp included it on a list of must-do items.

Fairley called it "a stupid bill." It went through the Government Operations and Elections Committee she chairs and she said Senators tried "to fix it as much as we could." Said Fairley:

"We were jerked around and we've been jerked around on numerous things."

Fairley and Senate Caucus Chairwoman Harriet Spanel said Chopp is overly concerned about Democrats doing something that could cost a member re-election. They wondered what would happen if all 98 House seats were filled with Democrats.

"Would that be enough for him to not be afraid of losing a member," Fairley said. "We've constantly been drug hither and yon by Frank Chopp."

Family leave, though, is not one of those cases where Chopp has taken a more conservative or centrist route than the Senate is comfortable with. In fact, the opposition in the Senate Democratic caucus to the current family leave bill comes from members who say that business would prefer the earlier version that pays for the program through an employee tax.

MORE: Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent, a leader in the push for paid family leave, also described the caucus as "meltdown." She is confident, though, that the bill will pass tomorrow in its current form.

She wasn't without her own criticisms of the House. "The House used to be known as the people's House," she said. But this session she said the Senate took that title away from the House. And not just on family leave, she said, but on a number of issues. She said Senate Democrats were disappointed and angry tonight.

THE VIEW FROM THE HOUSE: House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler told me that just recently the House looked carefully at how many bills each chamber passed and "it was pretty even." She said the House leadership was prompted to do that by House Democrats who, just like their Senate counterparts, were convinced they have been getting the short end.

"I think in the end it will be fairly balanced," she said.

Right now the House is beginning to debate a major prison reform bill. It is a priority of the Senate, and clearly not of the House leadership. Kessler said:

"We've gone way out of our way to do this for the Senate."

As Kesier said, "This is the time of the session where we're tired and a little overwrought."