Democrats Harry Reid and Alan Grayson got into a screaming match in the middle of a congressional meeting

All the fun feud talk on Capitol Hill lately might be surrounding the Republicans — but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was involved in a fracas Wednesday that Democrats alone can take credit for.

During the weekly gathering of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Reid clashed with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who has been dogged by ethics questions. Grayson is currently running for Marco Rubio's Senate seat in Florida, but accusations that he ran a hedge fun through his congressional office have sullied his campaign.

Wednesday's meeting reportedly took a turn when Grayson confronted Reid, who was a guest at the gathering, over the latter's February statement that Grayson should drop out of the Senate race due to the "deeply troubling allegations" regarding his ethical conduct. Grayson reportedly entered the CPC meeting with a print-out of Reid's February comments and waved the paper in Reid's face, saying, "shame on you. It's not true." Reid then apparently replied: "It is true and I want you to lose."

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Both congressmen's offices acknowledged the confrontation, and the statement from Reid's office was particularly brutal:

Never say the Democrats don't have some drama of their own.