House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday asked the White House if it will once again miss the legal deadline for submitting an annual budget to Congress.

Under the law, Obama must submit a budget by the first Monday in February, but he has met the deadline only once. The annual budget submission is supposed to start a congressional budgeting process, but that has also broken down. The Senate last passed a budget resolution in 2009.

“Given the critical importance of addressing our nation's fiscal problems, I am writing to ask whether the President will submit his budget request this year on or before February 4 as required by law,” Ryan wrote in a letter to Acting Budget Director Jeff Zients. “If the Administration does not plan to meet the statutory deadline, when do you anticipate the request being made
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The budget will likely play a role in an upcoming fight over raising the nation's $16.4 trillion debt ceiling. Republicans are demanding Obama propose big cuts to entitlements to offset any increase in the ceiling. Failure to raise the ceiling will cause a debt default.

Ryan’s office says that Obama has missed the budget deadline by more than any president since the 1920s.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/bu...-deadline-again

Obama makes his own rules and follows the governing pattern of Hugo Chavez, right down to his worshiping sycophants.