Judge Sonia Sotomayor was on Capitol Hill Tuesday, meeting with some of the United States senators who will decide whether to confirm her nomination to the Supreme Court.

The Bronx native started her day by meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Addressing the media after their meeting, Reid called Sotomayor "the whole package" who has "an underdog appeal."

She was also scheduled to meet with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and New York Senators Charles Schumer, a judiciary committee member, and Kirsten Gillibrand.

The conversations focused on her controversial comments from 2001, where she said a wise Latina would make better judgments than a white man. That's led some critics to label her an activist judge and a racist.

New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, says the criticisms against her are baseless.

"We asked her about it, and she said read just three sentences later, where I said that nine white males changed America with Brown vs. Board of Education. It is so obvious in what she says and in her 17 year record as a judge that she puts rule of law first in every way," said Schumer.

Sotomayor met with White House attorneys Monday who are consulting her ahead of her confirmation hearings.

President Barack Obama has called on Congress to confirm Sotomayor before it goes on its summer break so she can join the high court when it returns in October.