House Foreign Affairs Indo-Pacific Subcommittee Chairwoman Young Kim (CA-40) and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (TX-10) issued the following statement welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Congress.
On June 22, 2023, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee passed out of markup H.R. 369, the NIST Wildland Fire Communications and Information Dissemination Act.
On June 21, 2023, U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-40) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) introduced the Protecting Moms and Infants Reauthorization Act to provide resources for pregnant and postpartum women with substance abuse disorders.
On June 21, 2023, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) introduced a bipartisan bill with Rep. Jason Crow (CO-06) to expand access to wildfire technologies.
On Friday, June 16, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) welcomed Speaker Kevin McCarthy to Orange County to meet with local and federal law enforcement hosted by Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer to discuss the ongoing increase in home invasions in Southern California by Chilean nationals as part of South American Theft Groups (SATGs).
On June 20, 2023, House Foreign Affairs Indo-Pacific Subcommittee Chairwoman Young Kim (CA-40) and Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairwoman Maria Salazar (FL-27) released the following statement on reports that China and Cuba are negotiating building a training facility on the island.
As first reported in the Washington Examiner, today, House Indo-Pacific Subcommittee Chairwoman Young Kim (CA-40) led Subcommittee members in a letter demanding answers from Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink for his and the State Department’s unwillingness to engage with Congress on their high-level visits to the People’s Republic of China.
U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-40), Lou Correa (CA-46), and Mike Levin (CA-49) from Orange County sent a letter today to Biden administration officials on the lack of enforcement of vetting requirements Chilean nationals seeking entry into the U.S. through the Department of State’s (DOS) Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
In May 2023, the median sale price of a home in Orange County fell by $15,000 from the same period in the previous year, while total sales decreased by 24.6%.
On June 1, House Foreign Affairs Indo-Pacific Subcommittee Chairwoman Young Kim (CA-40) and Ranking Member Ami Bera (CA-06) introduced a bipartisan resolution to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s continued crackdown on human rights and basic freedoms in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong.