The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving toward setting a hearing date for Elena Kagan after White House delivery of Kagan's completed questionnaire to the panel today. The committee will publicly release the questionnaire and attachments following distribution to committee members. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said he is meeting late this afternoon with ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to set a date.

Sessions has said the hearing should not come until after the Senate's July 12 return from the Independence Day recess, which means it would occur around the same time as that of Sonia Sotomayor last year. Leahy may push for a hearing in the last two weeks of June, committee members said. By then the American Bar Association will have released its rating of Kagan, which usually takes about four weeks for Supreme Court nominees. The panel is unlikely to act before receiving the ABA rating.