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. Kim defeated Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-Yorba Linda), 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, in the 39th District, which runs from Walnut in the north to Chino Hills in the east, Hacienda Heights in the west, and Fullerton in the south. Steel was a 51.1 percent to 48.9 percent winner over Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Newport Beach) in the coastal 48th District, which stretches from Seal Beach to …