From this morning's Earlybird:

• "James Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters union, praised President Barack Obama's recent recess nominations to the National Labor Relations Board," Roll Call (subscription) reports.

• "The European aircraft consortium EADS will likely decide within the next two to three weeks whether it will bid for a contract to build aerial refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force, Thomas Enders, chief executive of EADS' Airbus aircraft division, told the Financial Times Deutschland" on Monday, CongressDailyPM (subscription) reports.