Hello there and welcome to the program im Laura Brennan libyas warlord how the have to aim to seize power by force he had the support of russia egypt and the u. A. E. And everything was going well for him until last month he suffered major blows in his battle to capture the capital tripoli as his plan to unseat the un recognized government base that collapsed have to use military losses were accelerated by turkeys military intervention in support of Government Forces after all has long resisted compromise botts now hes ready to talk hes accepted a cease fire plan for opposed by his ally the egyptian president up till fattah elsisi that would start on monday it would include foreign fighters leaving libya. Come out that even with our daughter ella the moment im sitting at the Initiative Aims to guarantee a fair representation of libyas 3 provinces in a president ial council elected by the people under the supervision of the United Nations it will manage libyas leadership for the 1st tim
Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but critically important. I think its also important to stop and recognize where things are going right from time to time and people that are doing the right thing. Following in the footsteps of one of our former colleagues here i dont think the presiding officer had a chance to work with him but ted kaufman served here for two years. He succeeded joe biden and went off to do some other job. I think Vice President maybe thats what he is. And then before senator chris coons was elected two years later,