The House passed the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act of 2022 to help provide and support lifesaving care to Americans suffering from mental illness or substance abuse disorders. Included in the package are two bipartisan efforts Rep. Kim helped introduce: The Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Memorial Act, …continue reading
U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39) led a letter with her California Republican colleagues to the California State Board of Education President Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond in strong opposition to their proposed math equity framework that phases out advanced math opportunities for students. The proposed framework advises California schools to phase out …continue reading
Orange County School of the Arts Freshman Doyeon (Jennifer) Kim from La Habra was named the winner of the 2022 CA-39 Congressional Art Competition. Her winning artwork, titled, A Soulful Night Market, will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC for one year. In announcing the news, …continue reading
Problem Solvers Caucus China and Foreign Affairs Working Group Co-Chairs Rep. Young Kim (CA-29) and Ed Case (HI-01) led a letter to House and Senate leadership urging for a bipartisan path forward as Congress moves ahead with conferencing the House and Senate US-China competitiveness bills. The Caucus expressed a commitment …continue reading
U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39), who serves as Ranking Member of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development, at the Subcommittee hearing urged for policy solutions to empower small businesses with resources to address the skills gap, promote career and technical education opportunities and restore the …continue reading
U.S. Rep. Young Kim (CA-39), Vice Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation, and Subcommittee Chair Ami Bera (CA-07), introduced the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2022. This bipartisan bill would reauthorize, update and improve the North Korean Human Rights Act, which …continue reading
U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39) joined House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and Reps. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Lori Trahan (MA-03) to reauthorize the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act. This bill reauthorizes community-based youth and young adult suicide prevention programs created in the Garrett Lee …continue reading
As first reported by Fox News, U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39) led a bipartisan letter to President Joe Biden and administration officials urging them to organize an international humanitarian aid airlift to quickly deliver urgently needed nonmilitary supplies, such as food, water and medicine, to the Ukrainian people. Rep. Kim …continue reading
As first reported by Axios, U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-39) and Ed Case (HI-01), co-chairs of the Problem Solvers Caucus China Working Group, led a bipartisan letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to stop organizations with ties to the People’s Republic of China or Chinese Communist Party (CCP) …continue reading
U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39), who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the Conservative Climate Caucus, released the following statement on the Biden administration’s announcement that the United States will ban imports of Russian energy. “Until today’s announcement, the United States bought …continue reading
U.S. Representative Young Kim (CA-39) will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, March 3 with a group of Republican colleagues to see firsthand the ongoing national security, humanitarian and public health crisis and hear from those on the front lines. “The crisis on our Southern border is straining our …continue reading
The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill introduced by U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-39) Tom Malinowski (NJ-07) and that requires the administration to take additional measures to end the civil war in Ethiopia. The Ethiopia Stabilization, Peace and Democracy Act (H.R. 6600), cosponsored by Ranking Member Michael McCaul (TX-10) …continue reading
The Problem Solvers Caucus announced its endorsement of the Uyghur Policy Act (H.R. 4785), a bipartisan bill led by U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-39) and Ami Bera (CA-07) to support Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities facing atrocities in Xinjiang. Reps. Kim and Bera serve as Vice Ranking Member and Chair …continue reading