We'll begin this first Sunday of Spring 2009 with a couple jokes from last night's Gridiron Club dinner in Washington -- an annual event where members of the news media and the nation's political leaders gather to "singe," but not "burn" each other with hopefully funny speeches and skits.

According to the Associated Press:

Vice President Joe Biden poked fun at Barack Obama's do-no-wrong reputation. ... Obama, the first president in decades not to attend the Gridiron Club dinner during his first year in office, couldn't make it because he's busy preparing for Easter, Biden said. "He thinks it's about him," Biden said of the holiday. Obama spent the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains with his family. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the evening's Republican speaker, had another explanation for the media and politicians assembled at a downtown Washington ballroom for the festivities. "He's just not that into you," Schwarzenegger said, referring to the book and movie with that title.

As for stories making headlines today, they include:

-- The New York Times -- Administration will push for increased oversight of executive pay: "The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said. The outlines of the plan are expected to be unveiled this week in preparation for President Obama's first foreign summit meeting in early April. Officials said the proposal would seek a broad new role for the Federal Reserve to oversee large companies, including major hedge funds, whose problems could pose risks to the entire financial system."

-- CBS News' 60 Minutes -- Geithner's job is safe, Obama says: In an interview due to be broadcast tonight at 7 p.m. ET, President Obama "tells 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft that New York's Wall Street executives need to get out of town to appreciate the public's anger towards them and that embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's job is safe. The president even joked that were Geithner to tender his resignation, he would say, 'Sorry, Buddy, you've still got the job.' "

(Photo of Kroft and Obama taken by Aaron Tomlinson for CBS News/60 Minutes.)

-- The Washington Post -- Details coming on plan to buy $1 trillion in "soured loans and toxic assets": "The Treasury Department will unveil the next step in its financial rescue efforts tomorrow, announcing that it intends to create a government body, called the Public Investment Corp., to finance the purchase of as much as $1 trillion in soured loans and toxic assets from ailing banks, according to sources. The plan calls for the new entity to combine its resources with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve and private investors to buy those loans and other assets."