They're going through a number of non-controversial votes right now, to get people to the floor and keep them there where they can be strong-armed as necessary. Here's the basic proposed schedule for today.
The House convenes at around 1 p.m. ET, and then we'll hear some one-minute speeches. Then the next several hours will be filled with votes, debate and points of order.
We're expecting the three big votes -- on the "self-executing" rule, the reconciliation bill and then the original Senate bill later in the afternoon and evening. The first vote could come between 5 and 6 p.m., the next vote a little after 8, and the last one around 9.
Again, that's all very rough and subject to change.
Very subject to change, as the vote counting will go down to the wire. With Tanner and Davis the last nos, dday says 208-209, Stupak bloc needed.
Update: This is just great:
Protester shouts 'kill the bill' in house gallery; removed by security. Republicans cheer.
Are they going to be encouraging teabaggers into the gallery to disrupt all day? Quite possibly. More:
Barney Frank is livid--says republicans were encouraging protester to resist, undermining order
Update 2: McMahon a no.
Update 3: Pomeroy, who had been huddling earlier on the floor with some of the Stupak bloc, is now a yes.
Update 4: The Hill's Molly Hooper tweets:
Democratic Stupak allies Reps Costello and Lipinski tell me they are still "nos" on healthcare bill
Update 5: This is cool.
In the video above, Speaker Pelosi and other House Democrats march over to begin their series of votes on health care reform. Pelosi is carrying the gavel used when the House voted to pass Medicare in 1965; it was provided by Rep. John Dingell, the longest serving member of Congress in history, whose father presided over the 1965 vote. At Pelosi's side were Georgia congressman and civil rights-era leader John Lewis and her close friend Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.).