INDIANAPOLIS -- The leader of the state House Democrats has been hospitalized to receive treatment for complications of the flu, Democrats said Monday.

Rep. Pat Bauer, D-South Bend and House minority leader, was admitted to a hospital to receive fluids intravenously, RTV6's Norman Cox reported. A spokesman for the House Democrats declined to identify the hospital or say whether Bauer was in Indianapolis or South Bend, citing a request by Bauer's family for privacy.

Bauer was at the Statehouse at the beginning of last week, but he was absent Wednesday because of an illness and has since remained out of the public eye.

Bauer led Democrats off the House floor on March 1, the deadline for bills originating in the House to be approved and sent to the Senate. The move, which was seen as an effort to block certain Republican proposals, derailed more than 130 bills, including one that would have mandated the observance of daylight-saving time in all of Indiana.

On Wednesday, Gov. Mitch Daniels blasted House Democrats for the boycott and took a verbal jab at Bauer, calling him a "throwback politician" who would put his party over efforts at reform. Bauer was ill and did not respond publicly, but a fellow Democrat, Rep. Russ Stillwell, D-Boonville, told reporters he was offended by the remarks.