Article snippet: Senate Republicans are eyeing a vote on the floor on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination next week. Senators, while coming out of a closed-door caucus lunch, acknowledged the situation remains fluid, but said they expected to be in session through the weekend to run out the procedural clock, a move that would allow them to wrap up Kavanaugh’s nomination next week. GOP Sen. MORE (R-Ga.) said he was planning to be around until Tuesday to finish Kavanaugh’s nomination. “If you plan to do something before next Tuesday I wouldn’t plan on it,” Isakson said. GOP Sen. told reporters that a vote could happen on Tuesday. He later hedged after the lunch saying it depends on how much Democrats drag out the procedural clock. If the Judiciary Committee sent Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate on Friday, that would allow Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) to file cloture as early as Saturday and hold an initial vote as early as Monday. McConnell did not give a specific timeline on Kavanaugh’s nomination during a weekly press conference only saying they would vote in the near future. "I believe he'll be confirmed, yes," he told reporters. No schedule on Kavanaugh’s nomination has been formally announced beyond a Thursday hearing where Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman accusing him of sexual assault, are scheduled to testify before the Judiciary Committee. Cornyn told reporters Monday evening that it was possible a committee vote could happen by Friday. If the... Link to the full article to read more