3:16 p.m. Majority Leader Thune spoke on funding law enforcement.

3:00 p.m. The Senate is now in session.

The Senate will convene at 3:00 p.m. and be in a period of morning business.

At 5:30 p.m. the Senate will vote on cloture on the nomination of Kathleen Lane to be a District Judge for the District of Montana.

Cloture has also been filed on the nomination of Jeffrey Kuhlman to be a District Judge for the District