The upper chamber will truly be the more experienced of the two bodies, and that will give them the upper hand in most negotiations. It wasn't always that way. The House used to always have two or three members who had served 20 years there and maintained institutional knowledge. But those days are gone. Now that institutional knowledge will belong to the staff, they will be inundated in the future, as they were this year, with questions about procedure and policy.
Inexperience has a cost.
House Democrats also demonstrated for the first time in five years that they are leaning to be the minority party. They picked their issues and argued vehemently. In many respects, they made a difference. On tax relief, they carried the day, getting the majority to cut its package in half. They mitigated damage to state employees by making sure the final civil service reform package left the burden of proof for firing someone on the state, instead of requiring the employee to justify their worth, which was in the original version the House passed.