It is not precisely clear what the aim of such an action by the House next week would be.

However, the move appears to represent at least an acknowledgment by House Republicans that any expectations earlier this year for a two-chamber agreement on all 12 spending bills for fiscal 2015 have crumbled.

Those hopes had been raised by the two-year budget deal agreed to by GOP Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray last year, because spending levels—a usual source of much of the House and Senate fiscal friction—were preset for 2015. The two-year accord had set the budget at $1.014 trillion for fiscal 2015, up from $1.012 trillion this year. (Those figures do not include mandated spending on entitlement programs.)