Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri disagrees with Republicans, many Democrats, and the Senate Parliamentarian…who all say the Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years. McCaskill says it was part of the Budget Control Act of 2011.

McCaskill says those who claim that the Senate has not passed a budget since April of 2009 are trying to make the Democrat-controlled Senate look bad. Among them are many Democrats, including Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The independent website PolitiFact says the claim that the Senate has not passed a budget in three years is true.