SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—Republican Reps.-elect Young Kim and Michelle Steel were sworn in Jan. 3, joining Rep.-elect Marilyn Strickland (D-Washington) as the first Korean-American women elected to Congress.
Kim and Steel both ousted Democrats who were in their first terms. Kim and Steel will be the only Republicans in the seven-member Orange County congressional delegation, which consists of three members whose districts are entirely in the county and four partially in the county. Republicans lost four seats in the 2018 election in their former stronghold.
