Young Kim

Republican · CA-40 · U.S. House

Bio

Young Oak Kim 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.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 245 of 437 by time served
Age: 63

District offices

Mission Viejo, CA · 949-268-6706
Anaheim, CA · 714-984-2440

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$855k

2020

$77k

2021

$233k

2022

$301k

2023

$3.3M

2024

$3.2M

2025

$2.9M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.2M – $5.4M
Liabilities: $250k – $500k
Net worth: $653k – $5.1M
Since 2019: +$2.0M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 15 assets reported

Residential property$1.0M – $5.0M

Wells Fargo Bank$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA US Core Equity 2$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA International Core Equity$15k – $50k

AIG Life Insurance ⇒ AIG Life Insurance$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA Emerging Markets Core$5k – $15k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA US Hi Relatv Profitability$5k – $15k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA US Targeted Value$5k – $15k

Mass Mutual ⇒ Mass Mutual (Fixed Annuity)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA International Small$3k – $5k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA US Small Cap$3k – $5k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA Intl Hi Relatv Profitability$1k – $3k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA Global Real Estate$201 – $1k

Charles Schwab IRA ⇒ DFA Short-Duration Real$201 – $1k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.79

Healthcare

R+0.61

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.80

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.84

Crime & Policing

R+0.71

Defense & Veterans

R+0.76

Economy & Labor

R+0.69

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.78

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.14

Education

R+0.96

Government & Democracy

R+0.86

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Young Kim's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

63%

29%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Young Kim (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Kimsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Financial Institutions National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
East Asia and Pacific (Chair)Europe
House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Partycenter · 23 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Kim's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.