From this morning's Earlybird:

• General Motors Corp. is firing all of its outside lobbyists as part of the automaker's massive court-supervised reorganization, the company confirmed on Tuesday," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "According to Senate disclosure statements, GM spent $2.8 million on lobbying during the first three months of 2009, including $100,000 in fees to Duberstein, $70,000 to the Washington Tax Group and $60,000 to the Nickles Group."

• "Internet search giant Google has been steadily increasing its presence in Washington as the company seeks to capture a larger share of the federal market for information technology products and services," Nextgov reports. "Google officials discussed the company's increasing involvement in the government space on at an event on Tuesday."

• Union leaders are pushing to reshape the boards of directors of some of America's largest companies, hoping to use government bailouts as leverage to fundamentally alter the way the companies are run in the years to come," Politico reports.