congress be disclosed to the public. and that was a really good idea because it meant that we could find out who was directly benefiting from the subsidies they were voting on. that is is not an academic issue. last summer, the environmental working group calculated that 15 minutes of congress or their spouses took in $238,000 in taxpayer-funded direct cash payments through the farm bill subsidies in 2012, alone. now, those farm subsidies, the $138,000, those come via direct cash payments. they're different than another kind of subsidy that come via discounted crop insurance. the recipients of the direct cash payments are already disclosed to the public for one thing. but not those who benefit from the other kind of subsidy. the government subsidizing crop insurance. in both cases, however, what the government is doing is effectively giving money to farmers, many of whom are already wealthy and some of whom are congress people. republican representative kristi noem has benefited more than $500,000 in farm subsidies through direct payments to her and her ranch since 1995 according to the environmental working group. gop representative doug lamalfa and his wife benefited from more than $1.7 million in farm subsidies according to the
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