Pelosi has never been good at hiding her disdain for the Senate’s pace. During the height of health care reform, her frustration would boil over in meetings after House members were repeatedly asked to compromise funds or provisions in order to secure individual Senate votes. In July, she blamed the upper chamber for failing to move fast enough on a series of bills that would have been economically stimulative — a failure that, in turn, made Democrats seem incapable of creating jobs…

“We passed a bigger recovery package than passed in the Senate,” Pelosi said. “We had the votes, we passed it in the House and it got cut in the Senate. We knew that we needed more and I think that probably could have accounted for a half a million jobs, at least the difference between the two bills. If there was any thought that a bigger bill could have passed in the Senate we could have passed a bigger bill in the House.”

And for good measure, she took a swipe at the Senate for punting on climate change legislation, which the House passed a year and a half ago. “The glaciers are melting faster than the Senate seems to be able to act,” she said.