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.
On May 31, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) voted for the Fiscal Responsibility Act (H.R. 3746) to responsibly raise the debt ceiling, reduce federal spending, and protect key government programs like Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits.
Property owners in Orange County paid 0.5% of the value of their homes in property taxes in the first quarter of 2023, which is less than 0.5 times the national average, according to the real estate analysis posted by the South OC Times.
On May 24, the House Financial Services Committee passed the Increasing Financial Regulatory Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 3556), a bill U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) helped introduce with Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chairman Andy Barr (KY-06).
On May 24, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-40) introduced a bipartisan bill to honor a local fallen hero who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedoms in Operation Iraqi Freedom.