60-39

In the first Christmas Eve vote in 114 years, the Senate passed its health reform bill by a vote of 60 to 39 at about 7:16 a.m. Only Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning did not vote. Every Democrat and two independents voted for the bill even though only a simple majority was needed. For the record, Sen. Bayh voted "aye," Sen. Lugar voted "no."

When Sen. Harry Reid's name was called in the roll call vote, the exhausted Majority Leader started to cast a "no" vote before he caught himself, creating a ripple of laughter on the floor. As he voted from his wheelchair, 92-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd, said, "This is for my friend Ted Kennedy." At that point an otherwise composed Vickie Kennedy said "the spigots opened," and she wept in the visitor's gallery as the Senate voted for for a bill addressing what her late husband called "the cause of my life." Also in the gallery was Rep. John Dingell, the healthcare warrior whose father proposed universal healthcare to FDR and who has proposed a health care reform bill in every House session in his own decades-long career.

Here is CNN's story on the vote. Here is a collection of reactions to the bills's passage compiled by ABC News. Below are President Obama's remarks on this historic occasion.