From this morning's Earlybird:

• "United Against Nuclear Iran, a well-funded group warning that enrichment activity by Tehran could be used for arms, is running its first TV ad this week to encourage President Obama to ratchet up pressure on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," Politico reports. "'This is Iran,' the narrator says. 'Young, vibrant -- a people Americans have no quarrel with. Unfortunately, this is also Iran -- radical rulers seeking nuclear weapons, threatening the world.'"

• "The meat industry has a beef with food safety legislation that is making its way through the House Energy and Commerce Committee," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "The Subcommittee on Health is expected to mark up a food safety bill as early as Wednesday, and the committee's Democratic and Republican staffs were meeting into the evening Friday to try to iron out some of the measure's sticking points. But meat industry groups say they will have a difficult time swallowing the bill in its current form."

• "Automobile dealers have been among the biggest contributors to U.S. political campaigns over the past decade, surpassing all but two groups in donations," Bloomberg News reports. "That investment may be paying off as the dealers get a lot of attention on Capitol Hill."

• "FedEx is expected to launch a multimillion-dollar lobbying offensive as early as Tuesday to thwart legislation that would put the Memphis, Tenn.-based package delivery company under the same labor laws as its main competitor, United Parcel Service Inc.," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "The legislation would make it far easier for some 100,000 FedEx Express drivers and certain other employees to unionize."

• "Months of characteristic doggedness paid off last week for Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) when he appeared to accomplish a feat his own leaders have struggled to match: backing a muscular Democratic majority into a corner, then getting it to fold," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "Aiming to head off Flake's latest attempt to force an ethics committee investigation of the defunct lobbying firm PMA Group and its ties to senior Democrats, the majority on Wednesday overwhelmingly called for the ethics panel to disclose whether it is probing the matter."