Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 6/13/18

The House will vote on two immigration bills next week, Speaker Paul Ryan announced late Tuesday evening. One of them is the conservative measure from Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) that the Freedom Caucus demanded be brought to a vote before they would support the farm bill, H.R. 2 (115) , which failed on the House floor last month, partly as a result of the revolt. The Goodlatte bill would reform the H-2A agricultural guest worker program, transferring it to USDA from the Department of Labor. Read more from POLITICO's Congress team.

On Tuesday morning, Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was upbeat that the lower chamber will pass H.R. 2 when a second vote is held. Scalise blamed the initial defeat on intraparty squabbling over immigration, and not on opposition to its farm or nutrition policy provisions. The House faces a June 22 deadline to reconsider the bill in its current form. For the farm bill to be passed with only Republican votes, the Freedom Caucus must get behind the bill.

"The farm bill is really good policy," Scalise said at a POLITICO Playbook event Tuesday morning, before the immigration votes were announced. "The work requirements in the farm bill are really important for the economy. President Trump wants that, too.

Let's get the farm bill passed — we have to work through the immigration issues first — but I think we're going to get there soon."