Claim: Says that, unlike the U.S. Senate, "even the Libyan government, in the middle of a civil war, passed a budget on June 15, 2011"
Fact-check: Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle uses passage of Libyan budget to shame U.S. Senate over inaction
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-07-19T00:00:00