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Even before he enters high school, Rishab Jain was recognized as America's top young scientist and one of Time magazine's 25 most influential teens of 2018.

Heady stuff.

Rishab, 14, is an eighth grader at Stoller Middle School in Beaverton.

Rishab envisions a future as a doctor or a biotechnical engineer.

Oregon's entire Congressional delegation is seeking a federal disaster declaration for damages in the state caused by the late February storm that brought snow, freezing rain, floods and landslides.

Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and House members Peter DeFazio, Greg Walden, Kurt Schrader, Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer estimated in their letter to the White House that especially hard-hit Douglas, Coos, Curry, Lane and Jefferson counties are eligible for more than $30 million in public assistance for the damage they incurred.

MEANWHILE ON THE HILL: The Learning Policy Institute is hosting a discussion on what the federal government should be doing to enforce student civil rights protections while supporting state and local efforts to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline policies. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) is slated to attend.