Today -

• The Senate will convene at 12:00 p.m.
• Following leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

Senator McConnell: (: p.m.)

• Spoke on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • "Through that testing, the Senate got to see exactly why the American Bar Association deemed this nominee to be unanimously well-qualified. That's the highest possible rating, a distinction many of our Democratic colleagues in the past have called the gold standard. We saw precisely why he's earned such praise from accomplished legal figures like Lisa Blatt, a self-described liberal and leading Supreme Court litigator, who proudly introduced Judge Kavanaugh before the committee, and Neal Katyal, the Obama administration solicitor general, who said, quote, it is very hard for anyone who's worked with Judge Kavanaugh, appeared before him, to frankly say a bad word about him."
• Spoke in tribute to Walter Oleszek.
  • "Walter arrived in Washington in the summer of 1968 from upstate New York. He signed on with the legislative reference service, now the congressional research service, and has been serving ever since. Over five decades Walter has grown into an institution unto himself. He is not only the longest-serving C.R.S. team member but also a dedicated and integral part of its operations, while also finding time to teach and lecture on the side. Alan Frumin, the former Senate parliamentarian, was actually one of Walter's students at Colgate University years ago."
• Unanimous Consent –
  • Under a previous order, at 1:45 p.m. today the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following nominations:
    • Executive Calendar #693, Marilyn Jean Horan, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
    • Executive Calendar #731, William F. Jung, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida.
    • Executive Calendar #778, Kari A. Dooley, of Connecticut, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
    • Executive Calendar #779, Dominic Lanza, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona.
    • Executive Calendar #782, Charles J. Williams of Iowa, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa.
    • Executive Calendar #838, Robert R. Summerhays, of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana.
    • Executive Calendar #839, Eric C. Tostrud, of Minnesota, to be a United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.
    • Executive Calendar #893, Alan D. Albright, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas.