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U.S. Representative · California 40th District
Young Kim
RepublicanDistrict R+1119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score65#64 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 · 4 signals
- StrongBacks 12 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 12 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1263, H.R. 1266, H.R. 1993, H.R. 1998, H.R. 2004 and 7 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1263 Strengthening the Quad Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1266 Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1993 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1998 Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2004 Tyler’s Law
- Sponsored or cosponsored: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 130 South Patterson Avenue in Santa Barbara, California, as the "Brigadier General Frederick R. Lopez Post Office Building".
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 201–250 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 2247Airmen Certificate Accessibility ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 70
| Middle |
| H.R. 2591 |