Friday's global agenda: Congress wraps it up

Your morning global affairs speed-read

Congress tries to wrap things up today before heading out of town. Senate leaders are still trying to work out when to vote on Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) bill to cut foreign aid to Egypt, Libya and Pakistan, and on Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) Iran resolution after a deal on the bills was scuttled Thursday evening.

Africa gets its day: Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Africa panel, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation host a day-long discussion on “Africa Rising” at the Washington Convention Center. More information is available here. 

In other news: 

The New York Times has the most detailed account to date of the attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Security lapses and misjudgments contributed to the tragedy, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The last of the 33,000 “surge” troops President Obama ordered to Afghanistan in December 2009 have left the country, The Washington Post reports.

What you might have missed on Global Affairs:

Clinton fails to convince Republicans on administration's account of Libya attack

Malawi's president thanks U.S. for renewing textile trade deal with Africa

U.S. warns Americans to avoid travel to Pakistan

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