From this morning's Earlybird:

• "Business and environmental groups are flooding the airwaves with advertisements targeting a dozen or so Democrats whose votes are seen as crucial on a controversial climate bill," the Wall Street Journal reports. "The outreach is intensifying as House Democratic leaders are gaining confidence that they have the votes needed to move the bill through the House Energy and Commerce Committee as early as next week."

• "A top pharmaceutical company executive Thursday came out hard against any public healthcare plan, saying it would stifle innovation and be a 'slippery slope' to government-run care," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports. "'There is simply no example, worldwide, of a robust private health insurance market co-existing with a government plan that's open to all,' Eli Lilly President and CEO John Lechleiter said at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.