It's unknown yet if that perspective will shift following the nominees first day of yielding questions for senators, especially as the GOP signals they could have some aggressive lines of attack - including on Jackson's record on sentencing in child porn cases.

Nationwide, schools report that about 10% of students multiple days a week, according to a federal survey from December.

The real number could be even lower: Just 2% of U.S. households say their children are getting that kind of intensive tutoring, according to the of a different nationally representative survey.

Some Republicans promised respect and praised Jackson's qualifications, but others attacked her record and sought to link her to advocacy groups on the left. Others tried to paint her as 'soft on crime.'

In Georgia´s Fulton County, 3% of the district´s 90,000 students participated in tutoring programs this fall.

Most of the tutoring was offered by paraprofessionals during the school day, with one hired to give intense support in each elementary school.

'These are some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with because we're talking about pictures of sex abuse of children, we're talking about graphic descriptions that judges have to read and consider when they decide how to sentence in these cases,' she continued in an impassioned defense of her judicial record.

While there are already work requirements for most able-bodied adults between 18 and 49, the bill raises the age limit to 54, but has an expiration date and would lower the age right back down to 49 in 2030.

Harrowing images from inside Kyiv have emerged showing terrified citizens gathering in underground shelters after residential buildings were bombed out in shelling as Russian forces pressed their advance and authorities said they were girding for an assault aimed at overthrowing the government.

Senators have already demanded amendments to the bill, that could delay it, but Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said there is not time to send an amended version back to the House before the nation runs out of funds to pay its bills.

Instead of holding a public ceremony with lawmakers from both parties - showcasing the bipartisanship that Biden had cited in an Oval Office address on Friday evening - the president signed the legislation in private in a reflection of the tight deadline facing the nation's leaders.

"It works, it´s effective, it gets students to improve in their learning and catch up," said Amie Rapaport, a University of Southern California researcher who has analyzed students´ access to intensive tutoring.

BALASORE, India (AP) - Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.

Seventy-five percent of voters who say they are Democrats want Jackson confirmed as the first black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States. Rather than the rest of Democrats really opposing Jackson, 20 percent are indifferent to her confirmation, while only 5 percent of Democrats oppose it.

The Indianapolis school district last year launched two tutoring programs that connect students with certified teachers over video. One is available to all students after school, while the other is offered during the day at certain low-performing schools.

'Tonight, the House took a critical step forward to prevent a first-ever default and protect our country's hard-earned and historic economic recovery,' Biden said in a statement praising passage Wednesday evening.

Phone calls and visits are banned for those in "punishment isolation" cells, a 2-by-3-meter (6 1/2-by-10-foot) space. Guards usually blast patriotic songs and speeches by President Vladimir Putin at him.

"In order for this country to not default on its bills, we then turned and made our most vulnerable communities default," said Rep.

Cori Bush, D-Mo. Years before she came to Congress, Bush lived in a car with her then-husband and two young children after the family had been evicted from their rental home.

The bill also expands work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - even though the changes are a pared-down version of what conservatives really want.

She noted that her parents grew up in the era of racial segregation in the South but said they taught her 'if I worked hard and believed in myself, in America I could do anything or be anything I wanted to be.'

There were times that one side will say to the others, maybe we need to give up. Maybe we have to have somebody else different in the room,' McCarthy said. 'But the one thing that happened is that we didn't give up.'

The 'conservative alternative' would increase the debt ceiling by only $500 billion and kick the can down the road on some other provisions by requiring a return to the negotiating table in a few months to work out the spending reforms.