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One of the biggest misconceptions about President Obama's health care overhaul isn't who the law will cover, but rather who it won't.

Covering all the bases ahead of a momentous Supreme Court ruling, the Obama administration plans to move ahead with major parts of the president's health care law if its most controversial provision does not survive, according to veteran Democrats closely involved with the legislation.

Some are already anticipating the Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law as the "decision of the century." But the justices are unlikely to have the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes.

Congressional Republicans intend to seek quick repeal of any parts of the health care law that survive a widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling, but don't plan to push replacement measures until after the fall elections or perhaps 2013.

The U.S. Department of Labor is releasing a $3,330,000 National Emergency Grant increment to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry to help with the clean-up and recovery efforts after Hurricane Irene, which hit Aug. 26-30, 2011, and Tropical Storm Lee, which hit Sept. 3, 2011.

The nation's Catholic hospitals are rejecting President Barack Obama's compromise for providing birth control coverage to their women employees.