House Republican leaders are shifting into high gear to boost support for the farm bill ahead of next week’s planned vote on the package, according to a whip notice obtained by Blue Light News on Monday.

Leadership is preparing for a vote on the bill the week of April 27, with an amendment deadline of April 22, as POLITICO first reported.

GOP leadership will be talking to Republican lawmakers on the House floor during Tuesday’s 3 p.m. vote, recommending a “yes” vote on the bill, according to the notice.

The notice sent by Whip Tom Emmer’s floor director emphasizes that the bill is budget-neutral and prioritizes “responsible spending on agriculture,” language meant to appeal to fiscal conservatives who typically oppose spending on the massive package that governs all major nutrition and agriculture programs.

“This bill expands on investments in rural communities, returns science-backed management to our national forests, and restores regulatory certainty in the interstate marketplace,” according to the whip notice. “Interstate marketplace” refers to controversial provisions in the package that would bar states from requiring pesticide labeling that differs from EPA guidance and undo restrictions of livestock sales under laws like California’s Proposition 12.

Those moves have sown division among Republicans and created uncertainty that they can garner enough support to pass the package. House Agriculture Committee staffhave been in private whip talks with other caucus members for weeks since the markup in early March. The bill advanced out of committee in a 34-17 vote.

The whip notice also highlights Republican priorities like efforts to strengthen “Buy American” requirements for school meals and crack down on foreign purchases of U.S. farmland.

Negotiations on the farm bill — which is meant to be reauthorized every five years — have been stalled due to partisan fighting over nutrition and climate-smart agriculture policies. Republicans used a major cut to spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to pay for tax cuts and farm safety net improvements in their massive tax and spending package last year, sparking anger among Democrats.

House Ag Chair G.T. Thompson (R-Pa.) said in an interview Monday that he doesn’t expect the vote on the farm bill to be delayed due to other legislative battles like the ongoing fight over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“I have not had any indication” of delays, Thompson said.

The bipartisan House Ethics Committee released a statement Monday calling for victims of sexual misconduct to report their accusations to congressional authorities — and affirming its commitment to “maintaining a congressional workplace free from” sexual harassment, abuse and assault.

“There should be zero tolerance for sexual misconduct, harassment, or discrimination in the halls of Congress, or in any employment setting,” the committee members said.

It’s an unusual public-facing step from a panel that operates overwhelmingly behind closed doors, but comes amid renewed scrutiny over how Congress polices its own members for impropriety: Just under one week ago, then-Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) resigned following allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with, or sexual assault of, former staffers.

In the wake of the Gonzales allegations that emerged earlier this year, the House was poised to vote on a measure from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) that would have forced the release of sexual harassment claims against lawmakers. The House Ethics Committee’s bipartisan leadership took the unusual step of releasing a statement condemning the resolution, with Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.) and ranking member Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.) arguing it would have a chilling effect for victims.

The full chamber voted to refer the resolution to the House Ethics Committee, which would effectively kill the effort.

“The greatest hurdle the Committee faces in evaluating allegations of sexual misconduct is in convincing the most vulnerable witnesses to share their stories,” the members said in their statement Monday. “Accordingly, the Committee’s practice has been to release only the information that is necessary to hold Members accountable for misconduct and address public reporting that impacts the integrity of the House.”

Members of the committee noted that their panel does not have the authority to handle lawsuits related to sexual misconduct allegations.

“Anyone who may have experienced sexual misconduct by a House member or staffer, or who has knowledge of such conduct” should contact not only the Ethics panel, members said Monday, but also the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights — which handles claims from legislative branch staffers who may have experienced misconduct — or the Office of Employee Advocacy — which provides legal services to House staffers who may be bringing those claims.

The panel also on Monday released a listof 28 instanceswhere the panel investigated members for allegations of sexual misconduct, going all the way back to 1976.

In about a dozen of these cases, the investigations ended when there was a “loss of jurisdiction,” meaning the lawmaker departed Congress and the committee no longer had standing to conclude its work.

The list includes just one ongoing probe: one relating to Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who has been accused of various improprieties, including illicitly engaging in federal contracts while in federal office. The Ethics list noted that the inquiry involves allegations of “Sexual misconduct and/or dating violence.” He also has been accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to release her nude videos; Mills has denied the allegations.

“Over the last decade, the Committee has adopted a more aggressive and robust approach to allegations of sexual misconduct,” the Ethics Committee said. “Since 2017, the Committee has initiated investigations in 20 matters involving allegations of sexual misconduct by a Member. The Committee has also investigated several Members for their handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by their senior staff.”

The FISA punt is setting up a chaotic stretch on Capitol Hill, with GOP infighting now threatening to jam up other Republican priorities.

After a dramatic collapse on the House floor, GOP leaders have 10 days to find a path forward on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before the law expires April 30.

The timing couldn’t be worse. President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline to pass immigration enforcement funding and reopen DHS is fast approaching, and Republicans are already running out of runway.

Early this week, Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham is expected to release text of a budget resolution that would provide up to $75 billion in funding for DHS immigration enforcement, followed by an initial vote as soon as Wednesday.

House Republicans will need to figure out their FISA deal quickly or risk having the fight weigh on the timeline for adopting the budget resolution. House GOP leaders are already planning to push back work this month on the SCORE Act — the college athletics revamp — because of the spy powers fight.

When it comes to FISA, Senate Republicans are done waiting on the House and are preparing to grab the wheel. Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Friday teed up consideration of a three-year 702 extension.

“We’ve just got to have optionality here,” he said. “I don’t know what the House is going to be able to do, and so we’ll be preparing accordingly.”

Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out how to address conservatives’ concerns over warrantless surveillance potentially sweeping up U.S. citizens, as well as their demand to ban the future launch of a central bank digital currency as part of the FISA bill — which Thune told us would threaten support in the Senate.

Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in an interview that House Republicans are still figuring out a different legislative vehicle where they could attach the CBDC ban.

“We’re gonna find a place for it,” Scalise said.

Some House Republicans are hoping they just need to massage a five-year 702 extension with relatively minor changes aimed at privacy hawks. But others are predicting they’ll face the same internal schism in 10 days. Some, including Rep. Don Bacon, believe it’s time to make a deal with Democrats.

Sen. Ron Wyden is promising to “pull out all the stops” for stronger FISA reforms. Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on House Intel, is finding himself performing rare “shuttle diplomacy” between GOP factions.

“What I learned tonight,” Himes said as it was all crashing down last week, “was that Republicans don’t talk to each other.”

What else we’re watching:

— Burgum on Blue Light News: A House Appropriations subcommittee will hold a hearing at 3:30 p.m. with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Appropriators are expected to ask him about plans to downsize the department, including a proposal to cut National Park Service staffing by almost 3,000 positions.

— SCM expulsion push: Republicans including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna will try to force a vote to expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick immediately after a House Ethics decision Tuesday on her punishment for ethics violations.

— Iran AUMF incoming? Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she and a group of senators are drafting an authorization for use of military force for the Iran war, as a growing number of Republicans raise public concerns about the conflict. Senate Democrats plan to force a war powers vote this week, and House Democrats may as well.

Meredith Lee Hill, Jordain Carney, Manuel Quiñones and Andres Picon contributed to this report.