From this morning's Earlybird:

• "As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote as early as this week on legislation rewriting the rules for Wall Street, the financial industry is holding fundraisers for lawmakers at a rate of almost one every business day this month," Bloomberg News reports.

• "Thousands of protesters are expected to march on K Street" today "in support of financial regulatory reform legislation," The Hill reports. "About 2,000 people from 20 states are expected to hold a series of demonstrations against lobbying firms in area of Washington where lobbyists have their offices, according to a release by several labor unions."

• "With health reform in the books, some of the most powerful industry groups that battled against each other during the epic debate have now teamed up and raised $450,000 to explore the idea of creating a national nonprofit that would help implement key parts of the law," Politico reports.

• "The National Beer Wholesalers Association has mounted a full-court lobbying offensive to find co-sponsors for legislation that supports state-based alcohol regulation and makes it much tougher to file legal challenges to states' distribution laws," Roll Call (subscription) reports.