From this morning's Earlybird:

• "AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka" said Monday that "Congress must pass healthcare reform but criticized the Senate package, which would fund the legislation by imposing a 40 percent excise tax on health plans costing more than $8,500 for single coverage or $23,000 for family coverage," CongressDailyPM (subscription) reports.

• "Reform groups are giving the Obama administration high marks for its first year of lobbying, ethics and transparency reforms," Roll Call (subscription) reports.

• "Civil rights organizations and advocates for the growing Caribbean and African immigrant population are setting aside differences and have formed the Unity Diaspora Coalition to push all blacks to fill out" the 2010 Census, USA Today reports.

• "The Supreme Court might rule today in the closely watched case of Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission, which could expand the role of corporations and labor unions in financing elections," the Wall Street Journal reports.

• "The government should not choose winners and losers in the technology sector when allocating broadcast spectrum, says the senior lobbyist for television and radio broadcasters," The Hill reports. "'Government is not very good at picking winners and losers,' said National Association of Broadcasters CEO Gordon Smith, who until last year was a Republican senator from Oregon."