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U.S. Representative · California 40th District
Young Kim
RepublicanDistrict R+1119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score66#54 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Young Kim’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2439 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0540
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 5 signals
- StrongBacks 23 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 23 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 975, H.R. 1263, H.R. 1266, H.R. 1269, H.R. 1340 and 18 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 975 Credit Union Board Modernization Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1263 Strengthening the Quad Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1266 Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1269 Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1340 More Homes on the Market Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: Humane Cosmetics Act of 2025
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 5.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMajority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsMajority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on East Asia and PacificChair
- Subcommittee on Europe
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Kim← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.264 is 0.27 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress87House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1701–1750 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 5046A bill to prohibit the transfer of certain offices and functions of the Department of Education to other Federal agencies, and for other purposes.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 58
| Middle |