Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE 6/17/19

The House is scheduled to consider a "minibus" appropriations package later this week, including the $24.3 billion agriculture bill , after members finish churning through a separate spending measure. More than 70 amendments have been filed for the Agriculture-FDA title, though not all of them will get a floor vote. Here are some of the highlights:

— Harvest boxes: An amendment from Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) would block USDA from using any funds to provide "harvest boxes" to SNAP recipients. The White House in March called for reviving awidely panned proposal to deliver monthly boxes of nonperishable goods like peanut butter and canned fruit in lieu of some food stamp benefits.

— Trade aid review: House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) filed — and then withdrew — an amendment that would require the Agriculture Department's Inspector General to report on how USDA designed and implemented its 2018 trade relief program and "whether there was waste, fraud and abuse in the program."

— ID checks: A pair of amendments from Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) would freeze funding for certain food and nutrition programs until Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue can verify to Congress that every recipient of the program has provided a driver's license or other state ID card and has passed a drug test.

— Cutting out sugar: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) filed several amendments to limit USDA support programs for sugar, including arestriction on marketing assistance loans for raw cane sugar and refined beet sugar.

— ERS/NIFA relocation: The spending bill already includes language that would block Perdue from relocating the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of Washington. A dozen Republicans and one Missouri Democrat filed an amendment to strip that provision from the bill.

— Another Russia report? Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) filed an amendment requesting an ERS report on the impact of tariffs on U.S. farmers "in light of Russian efforts to expand agricultural exports to China."

What's next: The House Rules Committee will determine which amendments will receive a floor vote. The panel is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday to consider the minibus package (and potentially again at 3 p.m. on Wednesday).