From Congress Daily : Senate Majority Leader Frist is open to forcing a Senate vote on regulating so-called 527 campaign groups before the House and Senate vote on an underlying package of lobbying and ethics reforms, according to GOP senators and congressional aides. House GOP leaders have urged their Senate counterparts to take up the lobbying reform conference report with the 527 language -- the name refers to a section of the tax code -- to force Democrats to vote against the campaign finance changes and publicly prove the Senate does not have the necessary 60 votes to overcome Democratic opposition. The leaders would then send the bill back to conference to strip the 527 provision. Democrats argue the language is not related to recent lobbying scandals involving lobbyists and members of Congress.