Watch Live as President Obama Makes History Today, Signs Health Care Reform Into Law Very Shortly

Update 11:33: Biden: “History is made when passion is matched with principle”

Update 11:34: Biden: “You’ve done what generations…have attempted to do”

Update 11:37: The Vice-President now introduces President Obama

Update 11:41: Obama: Health care reforms to start going into effect “swiftly”

Update 11:42: Obama: Several measures in bill to take effect “this year”

Update 11:43: Obama: This represents the largest ever middle-class tax cut for health care and reform…and reform will “help lift a decades-long drag on our economy”

Update 11:46: The President gives props to the greatest Speaker of the House ever in Nancy Pelosi…one of the best ever Senate Majority leaders in history Harry Reid…thanks Kathleen Sebelius

Update 11:48: Obama: thanks “members of Congress who did what was difficult, but did what was right”…”Today, I’m signing this bill for my mother–who argued with insurance companies even as she was dying of cancer”

Update 11:52: Obama: “Fiting” that Sen. Kennedy’s widow is present for signing of reform bill and “We are not a nation that scales back its aspirations”

Update 11:53: Obama: “We have just enshrined the core principle, that everyone should have basic security when it comes to their health”

Update 11:54: Let the signing of this bill begin! History is about to be made. I’m just thinking how I would sign my name when having to use 20 pens. 🙂

Update 11:56: It is now the law of the land! 🙂