Young Kim

U.S. Representative, CA-40

CA House · Republican

Young Oak Kim (née Choe (최;崔); Korean: 김영옥; Hanja: 金映玉; born October 18, 1962) is a South Korean–born American politician and businesswoman serving as the U.S. representative for California's 40th congressional district, previously representing the 39th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. Her district includes northern parts of Orange County. She is a member of the Republican Party. Prior to serving in Congress, Kim served in the California State Assemblywoman, representing the 65th district from 2014 to 2016, defeating the incumbent Democrat Sharon Quirk-Silva in 2014. Kim lost the seat in a rematch with Quirk-Silva in 2016. Kim was the first South Korean-born Republican woman elected to the California State Legislature. Kim was first elected to Congress in 2020, defeating Democratic incumbent Gil Cisneros in a rematch. In the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, Kim, Michelle Steel, and Marilyn Strickland became the first Korean-American women elected to the United States Congress. Along with Steel and David Valadao, Kim was among the first three Republican candidates to unseat an incumbent House Democrat in California since 1994.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 31
Ballots cast: 30
Participation: 96.8%
Yea / Nay: 20 / 10

Yea20

Nay10

Absent1

Abstain0

31 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

20 votes recorded as “Yea”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Ratepayer Protection Act	house	—	Yea
Retire through Ownership Act	senate	—	Yea
Stop Insider Trading Act	house	—	Yea
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026	house	—	Yea
Clergy Act	house	—	Yea
FEHB Protection Act of 2025	house	4110	Yea

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.