Update Sunday Night: 7:35 pm.  The voting is beginning; a 15 minute vote.

The Dems are shouting on the floor:  One More Vote One More Vote!  then erupting into applause.

At 7:46 the magic number 216 Aye votes was reached.

The final vote was 219 Aye and 212 No with 34 Dems defecting to the No side.  Go get em!

Adler (NJ);  Altmire (PA); Arcuri (NY);  Barrow (GA); Berry (AK); Boren (OK); Boucher (VA); Bright (AL); Chandler (KY); Childers (MS); Davis (AL); Edwards (TX);  Herseth Sandlin (SD); Holden (PA); Kissell (NC); Kratovil (MD); Lipinski (IL); Lynch (MA); Marshall (GA); Matheson (UT); McIntyre (NC); McMahon (NY); Melancon (LA); Minnick (ID);  Nye (VA); Peterson (MN); Ross (AK);  Shuler (NC); Skelton (MO); Space (OH); Tanner (TN); Taylor (MS); Teague (NM);

update: Here’s some TPM info on the districts these guys come from.

Following the vote, there is a second vote on a motion to re-commit to committee.  Lots of booing and shouting from the Republicans, esp during Stupak’s speech to vote no, after the GOP had cited Stupak in asking for a Yes.  Out of order!  Out of Order!  says the Clerk.   One fine specimen of congressional humanity even shouted “baby killer” at him. I’d call that a moral hazard of the first order.  Brats getting away with stuff like will remain brats.

The President will sign the bill on Tuesday, and had some remarks tonight.

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America’s workers and America’s families and America’s small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they’ve worked a lifetime to achieve.

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The best place to keep a bird’s eye view on the vote today is C-Span Looks like the voting begins 1 p.m. ET (10 in the west)

The House Rules Cme. has cleared the way for the House to take up health care legislation. The committee rejected 80 amendments, and passed a rule allowing for separate votes on the Senate health care bill and the reconciliation bill. The House returns at 1pm ET today to debate and vote on the legislation.

A long, interesting inside baseball account in the NY Times of what’s been going on among the major protagonists in the last month.  It will be a lot more interesting, and rewarding to read if the bill passes.

That Mr. Obama has come this far — within a whisper of passing historic social legislation — is remarkable in itself. But the story of how he did it is not his alone. It is the story of how a struggling president partnered with a pair of experienced legislators — Ms. Pelosi and, to a lesser extent, Mr. Reid — to reach for a goal that Mr. Obama has often said had eluded his predecessors going back to Theodore Roosevelt.

Their journey over the last two months, interviews with White House aides, lawmakers, outside advisers, lobbyists and political strategists show, involved tensions, resolve, political spadework — and a little bit of luck.

When Anthem, a California insurer, notified policyholders of an increase in premiums of up to 39 percent, the move played right into the hands of a White House that had spent months demonizing the insurance industry.

A cross-Capitol feud erupted when Ms. Pelosi demanded that Mr. Reid provide a letter with the signatures of 51 senators willing to pass a package of legislative changes under the complex parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation. (On Saturday, the leader announced that he had a “significant majority.”)

And Mr. Obama’s decision to hold a bipartisan health care summit meeting proved a strategic success. The move privately mystified some Democrats. But it created an important cooling off period and helped shift attention to Mr. Obama and away from Capitol Hill, freeing the speaker to work on convincing recalcitrant members of her caucus that it would be politically disastrous for them simply to walk away.

Looks like it’s not online yet but Willie Brown thinks Pelosi has the votes needed (216) plus a few for last minute betrayals..

Here’s an AP summary of the bill. [And a brief history of past attempts.]

Yeah, yeah, we don’t like it but it reminds me of a scene in a war movie I saw recently.  The exhausted and harried soldiers are barely able to keep walking through a driving rain, on muddy, stone filled roads.  A close up shows one poor wretch stopping and looking at a pair of shoes lying in the mud, the sole broken from the top-leather.  Shoes not worth anything.  Then the camera pans to his own shoes.  They are worse by far.  One has no sole at all.  It is basically a leather anklet flopping around.  He sits down in the mud and changes shoes, gets up and resumes his march, a bit more protected for a bit more time.  And as any evolutionist will tell you, it’s the tiny changes in adverse circumstances that mean survival for some and expiration for others.  In the case of the bad medical bill we must hope passes 32 million Americans will get a pair of shoes they didn’t have yesterday.  And hoorah for that!