From this morning's Earlybird:

• "As baby boomers across the country re-evaluate their retirements in the face of dwindling 401(k)s, the organization that represents 40 million of them in Washington, D.C., is planning for its own future as well," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "AARP is near the end of an 11-month search to replace Chief Executive Officer Bill Novelli, whose contract expires at the end of 2009."

• "The push to reunify the nation's fractured labor movement has run into serious obstacles, labor leaders said, with several saying the effort has only a 50-50 chance of success," the New York Times reports. "The presidents of 12 large unions have held talks since January, when they announced an effort to reunify organized labor, which split in 2005 when seven unions quit the A.F.L.-C.I.O."

• Obama "banned lobbyists from raising or giving money to his presidential campaign, but his Democratic colleagues in Congress aren't following suit," the Washington Times reports. "House leaders are set to dine Monday night inside the home of two lobbyists with donors who are paying $5,000 or more apiece to attend."

• Obama "rode into office with a high-tech, open source campaign that digitized the book on campaigning," Wired reports. "Now, with his selection of a celebrated open data advocate as his Chief Information Officer, Obama appears serious about bringing those same principles to the executive branch's treasure trove of data."