Key senators remain at odds over the timing of Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing after Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., failed to resolve the issue at a meeting this morning.

"We haven't reached an agreement," Sessions said, although he and an aide to Leahy called the meeting productive. "We had a good conversation and we agreed we'd continue to discuss it," Sessions said. But the two senators and Democrats and Republicans in general are at odds over a timetable. Democrats want a Judiciary Committee hearing and a Senate confirmation vote before the congressional recess scheduled to start Aug. 7. Republicans want the hearing after Congress returns in September.

Sessions and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., cite Sotomayor's thousands of opinions as an appellate judge in suggesting that senators need more than the average 60 days from nomination to the start of committee hearings for the last three Supreme Court nominees.

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