From this morning's Earlybird:

• "Lobbyists are working around a White House order banning them from seeking details about the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan by instead sending company executives, lawyers or consultants to meet with federal officials in the hope of securing a share of the money," the Wall Street Journal reports.

• "Labor unions are mobilizing against the pending U.S.-Panama trade agreement forcefully, more so than they did two years ago when a Republican president was pushing a more commercially significant deal with Peru," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports. "AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is drafting a letter to lawmakers outlining concerns with the proposed Panama deal, a union official said. That would mark a deliberate and significant shift from the 2007 Peru vote, when many trade-watchers credited successful passage in part to the lack of clear opposition from the powerful union."