House Republican leadership pulled the farm bill from consideration on the floor Wednesday after division within the conference, sources told NOTUS.

The move is a major setback for the bill, which leaders had hoped to pass this week. The farm bill will now head back to the Rules Committee, which will have another chance to include many of the Republican-backed amendments it originally rejected.

“We want to get a farm bill, too,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise said. “So we’re gonna keep working on those areas where members have very big differences.”

Lawmakers are split over a pesticide provision and whether to allow a specific type of gasoline, E15, to be sold year-round. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that discussions about E15 will continue over the next few weeks.

“We are going to allow a little bit more time for, especially the E15 issue, to be worked through with members,” Johnson said.

The Republican leaders’ decision to send the farm bill back to committee came after a chaotic vote over moving forward with the legislation and other measures, including one to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. House leaders left the vote open for more than two hours before getting enough votes to proceed.

The farm bill already went through the Rules Committee, but Republicans outside the committee grew frustrated when their amendments were voted down by the majority after being introduced by the committee’s Democrats.

“If we aren’t able to have amendments that are even heard and have an up and down vote, then that’s not going to fly with us,” Rep. Lauren Boebert said after the series of votes on Wednesday. “The amendment process is how we give voice for our districts.”

Some Republicans and Democrats oppose a provision in the farm bill that would protect companies that produce glyphosate, a widely used pesticide. The chemical has been under scrutiny by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and members of the MAHA movement.

The agricultural industry supports the provision and the committee’s chairman, Pennsylvania Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, has defended its inclusion in the farm bill.

“This is just a labeling bill,” Thompson said in an interview with farm broadcasters on Wednesday. “This is about making sure that we put science before emotion.”