sentences:  From 1995 to 2016, LaMalfa was the recipient of the largest amount of money from agricultural subsidies (over $1.7 million) in the history of congress.As a member of the House Agricultural Committee, he oversees farm subsidies.In 2017, his spokesman, Parker Williams, stated that LaMalfa "voted to end direct farm subsidy payments in the very first farm bill he worked on" and that a new farm bill proposed does not provide subsidies for rice grown in California, a crop that LaMalfa farms.