If the Senate doesn't act, there's not much more to be done.
Any leader with a majority of votes can get a bill passed. He should not get credit for passing legislation that he knows will go nowhere because the senate will give him cover.
Where was his public advocacy for any important issue?
Where has been the fight in a public forum for a budget to be passed?
I know he can’t control the senate, but he could try to publicize and make an issue out of it. Months would go by and he was totally invisible, as was the rest of the House.
But as long as he could cover his own ass, he didn’t care.