Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is interviewed by New York Post reporter Georgett Roberts and photographer Anthony Fioranelli as he walks down the street near his home in the Queens borough of New York Saturday, June 11, 2011. (AP Photo/David Karp)

“Congressman Weiner has the love of his family, the confidence of his constituents, and the recognition that he needs help,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). “I urge Congressman Weiner to seek that help without the pressures of being a Member of Congress.”

Of Weiner, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) said “the behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner’s continued service in Congress is untenable.”

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) also called on Weiner to step aside.

Weiner, who has acknowledged “inappropriate” online conduct with at least six women, has insisted he has no plans to resign.

But the public call for that resignation from his party’s leadership coupled with a report that police were looking into Weiner’s online contact with a 17-year old girl in Delaware — his office has acknowledged the correspondence but has said it was entirely innocous — complicate his chances of hanging on to his Brooklyn-and-Queens-based district.

The Weiner saga began two weeks ago today when he accidentally sent a picture of his underwear-clad groin to a college student in Seattle, Washington.