[CAPTURE PORTAL] 119TH CONGRESS

// Legislative Integrity Monitor

Goblin House Intelligence

Young Kim

Republican · Representative, CA ·40

Score Components

21 MODERATE

Connection Density 20%

0 → 0

Donor Influence 10%

0 → 0

Silence Risk 25%

0 → 0

Contradiction Risk 25%

64 → 16

Intelligence Volume 10%

48 → 5

Constituency Deviation 5%

0 → 0

Voting Misalignment 5%

0 → 0

% = weight in composite score · Raw component 0–100 × weight = weighted contribution (→) · Sum of contributions = overall score. Hover a row for details.

[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty rate (2024 ACS): 7.14%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic population share: 25.2%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Asian population share: 20.4%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: 71.0%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Population (2024 estimate): 753,713

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median household income (2024 ACS): $134,712

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Proposition 36 — Increase Sentences for Drug and Theft Crimes (2024) — passed, margin 70.0% Yes, 30.0% No

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 31-33 (share 0.111)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 54 (share 0.121)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 (share 0.129)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Orange County Government (16000 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: University of California, Irvine (15000 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Kaiser Permanente (Orange County operations) (18000 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] District summary: California's 40th Congressional District covers inland Orange County communities including Anaheim, Orange, Mission Viejo, and Aliso Viejo. The district has a population of approximately 754,000 and is majority-minority: 51.1% White, 25.2% Hispanic, and 20.4% Asian. The median household income of $134,712 is well abo

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Voted yea_unverified on H.R. 4763 (Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21 crypto regulation)) on 2024-05-22: Kim, a Financial Services Committee member, voted for the crypto industry's top legislative priority. The Fairshake crypto Super PAC spent nearly $1 million supporting her 2024 race, and her securities and investment secto

inferential · 2024-05-22

Voted yea_unverified on H.R. 8035 (Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024) on 2024-04-20: Kim voted for $60.8 billion in Ukraine aid, joining 100 other House Republicans in support while 112 Republicans voted against. As Chair of the Indo-Pacific Subcommittee, her foreign policy profile created an expectation of supporting allies. She voted a

primary · 2024-04-20 ✓ Verified

Voted yea on H.R. 3746 (Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling deal)) on 2023-05-31: Kim voted to raise the debt ceiling, joining 149 Republicans who supported it while 71 opposed. Her vote balanced fiscal conservatives seeking deeper cuts against constituents who rely on Social Security, Medicare, and veterans' benefits protected in the deal. The d

primary · 2023-05-31

Voted yea_unverified on H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Trump budget reconciliation / Medicaid cuts)) on 2025-07-03: Kim voted for legislation containing over $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, directly affecting the 31,000 constituents in CA-40 who could lose health coverage, plus nearly 15,000 households facing SNAP cuts. She had pledged in April 2025 not t

primary · 2025-07-03 ✓ Verified

[vote] Kim has received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and voted multiple times against the Women's Health Protection Act, which would have codified Roe v. Wade, and for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

primary · 2025-03-21

[statement] In a 2024 election questionnaire, Kim stated she is a 'grandma because of IVF' and cosponsors legislation to protect IVF access, positioning herself as supportive of fertility treatments.

primary · 2024-10-04

No connections mapped

Bill	Vote	Date	Alignment
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Trump budget reconciliation / Medicaid cuts)	yea_unverified	2025-07-03	misaligned
Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21 crypto regul	yea_unverified	2024-05-22	aligned
Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024	yea_unverified	2024-04-20	deviating
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling deal)	yea	2023-05-31	mixed

Last contradiction analysis: Never

reversal 90/100

Platform: "In April 2025, Kim said: 'A budget resolution that does not protect vital Medicaid services for the most vulnerable citizens in my community will not "

Vote: on "On July 3, 2025, Kim voted in favor of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), which the Congressio"

Kim publicly pledged not to vote for a budget resolution that failed to protect Medicaid, then three months later cast the deciding vote for H.R. 1, which contained the largest Medicaid cuts in history. The sources are from different hostnames (ocreg

position_evolution 60/100

Platform: "In a 2024 election questionnaire, Kim stated she is a 'grandma because of IVF' and cosponsors legislation to protect IVF access, positioning herself a"

Vote: on "Kim has received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and voted multiple times agains"

Kim publicly touts her personal connection to IVF and cosponsors fertility protection legislation, yet maintains an A+ rating from a prominent anti-abortion group and consistently votes against reproductive rights legislation including the Women's He

Last silence detection: Never

No active silences

No donor interests mapped

No constituency baseline modelled

No platform commitments archived

No committee memberships recorded

Scoring Methodology

The Capture Risk Score is a composite 0–100 index measuring potential regulatory capture of elected officials. It is computed from seven weighted components:

Component	Weight	Signal
Silence Risk	25%	Topics where donors have interests but the official is silent
Contradiction Risk	25%	Stated positions contradicted by voting record (recent findings boosted)
Connection Density	20%	Mapped relationships to lobbyists, contractors, interest groups
Intelligence Volume	10%	Documented facts from verified sources (logarithmic scale)
Donor Influence	10%	Distinct donors with interests overlapping committee jurisdiction
Constituency Deviation	5%	Gap between district priorities and legislative focus
Voting Misalignment	5%	Floor votes contradicting stated platform positions

Each component produces a raw score 0–100. The weighted sum yields the overall score. Tier thresholds: Critical ≥ 45, High ≥ 36, Elevated ≥ 22, Moderate ≥ 10, Low < 10.

Officials without at least 2 documented facts, 1 contradiction analysis, 1 voting record, or 1 constituency baseline are marked Insufficient Evidence and excluded from numeric ranking.

Contradiction findings from the last 180 days receive a recency boost. High-severity contradictions (score ≥ 70) receive additional weight.

Full methodology: /congress/methodology

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