From this morning's Earlybird:

• "With millions of dollars invested in campaign donations and an all-star lobbying team, BP executives could give an advanced class in how to build influence in Washington. But with millions of gallons of leaking oil bearing down Gulf Coast beaches and bayous, they could also teach how to lose it," AP reports.

• The New York Times reports on how banks are lobbying against the derivatives trading ban.

• "Mary Kay Henry, the new president of Service Employees International Union, said on Saturday that she will continue outgoing SEIU head Andrew Stern's close relationship with the White House between now and the next presidential election," Roll Call (subscription) reports.

• "The newly elected head of the powerful Service Employees International Union pledged to focus more on private-sector organizing, including workers in banking and biotechnology, as well as on gubernatorial elections and mending ties with other unions," the Wall Street Journal (subscription) reports.