Check the Congressional record on that vote. He is right.
The problem is the budget process is broken. Largely because of Harry Reid in the democrat led Senate.
I will keep it simple for you, but In a normal year, after the presidents proposed budget is voted on, the House and Senate budget committees would meet separately and put together their own budget plans. If the majority party in either the House or the Senate matches the president the proposal is usually coordinated with the White House to address Congressional concerns while addressing the presidents plans.
Once those committees are done their separate bills go up for votes in their respective chambers. After the House and Senate each pass their budget bill the 2 bills go to a joint House/Senate budget committee to hash out a final bill that both Houses will pass. Usually this is done in conjunction with input from the White House so that they will pass a bill knowing that the president will sign it.
During the first 2 years of the Obama Administration this should have been an easy process as democrats controlled both the House and the Senate. With a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. So why was no budget passed those first 2 years? Because a power struggle in the democrat party had Obama, Pelosi and Reid at each others throats. It has been so bad that Reid refused to even hold budget votes some years.
Once the Republicans took over the House the budget process was attempted there, but democrats on the budget committee rarely showed up for meetings.
The Senate budget committee has not done anything productive in years. Most of their meetings the last 4 years are filled with the endless rhetoric filled ramblings of people like John Kerry. As he did during his time on the useless budget super committee.
Two final notes.
1. Did you ever notice Obama stopped directly blaming republicans in Congress in late 2009? Even he started using the generic 'Congress does nothing' remarks because it lumps in his own party members. To this day he still uses the generic term Congress when complaining about nothing getting done.
2. Did you notice in Bob Woodwards new book, the democrat reporter who helped take down Nixon, that he recounts an incident several sources recounted to him where Pelosi put the President on mute during a budget conference call because he rambling on and she wanted to get some work done. He was ignored for over an hour while he talked to thin air.
The bottom line is there has been no cooperation, no team work, from the democrats starting with Obama, Pelosi and Reid at the top.
