From this morning's Earlybird:

• "As negotiations continue in the Senate over the financial services regulatory overhaul, non-banking entities are pressing Congress to leave them out of the final package," Roll Call reports.

• "The Senate's top Democrat on military matters," Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., "is pressing the Department of Justice to investigate whether the company formerly known as Blackwater and Raytheon Co. made false or misleading statements when bidding for an Army contract in Afghanistan," The Hill reports.