WASHINGTON – The House voted yesterday to overhaul a national intelligence network that failed to prevent the September 11, 2001, attacks, combining under one official control of 15 spy agencies; intensifying aviation and border security; and allowing more wiretaps of suspected terrorists.

“We have come a long way toward taking steps that will ensure that we do not see another September 11th,” said House Rules Chairman David Dreier, a California Republican. Now “we have in place a structure that will ensure that we have the intelligence capability to deal with conflicts on the ground wherever they exist.”

The House voted 336-75 to send to the Senate legislation to create a new national intelligence director, establish a counterterrorism center, set priorities for intelligence-gathering, and tighten American borders. The measure would implement the biggest change to American intelligence-gathering and analysis since the creation of the CIA after World War II to deal with the newly emerging Cold War.

The new structure should help the nation’s 15 intelligence agencies work together to protect the country from attacks like the ones that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, lawmakers said.

“I have always said that good people need better tools. Here come the tools to help good people succeed,” said Rep. Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

The GOP-controlled Senate plans to pass the bill today and send it to President Bush for his signature.

Congressional approval would be a victory for Mr. Bush, whose leadership was questioned after House Republicans refused to vote on the bill two weeks ago despite his urging.

“The president was monitoring the debate on C-SPAN in the conference room on Air Force One,” said Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman. “The president is very pleased with House passage. He knows that this bill will make America safer … He greatly looks forward to Senate passage and ultimately to signing the bill into law.”

If the measure had been passed three years ago, “we might have had a chance not to go through the horrible experience that we did on September 11,” said Senator Rockefeller of West Virginia, senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Heavy and persistent lobbying by the bipartisan September 11 commission and families of attack victims kept the legislation alive through the summer political conventions, the election, and a post election, lame-duck session of Congress. Mr. Bush and Vice President Cheney also pushed hard in recent days.

“It was the persistence of the 9/11 families that created this commission, over the objection of the Bush administration, and that demanded these reforms go forward,” said Rep. Rosa De-Lauro, a Connecticut Democrat. “It is these families who remind us that we will not stop fighting to keep America’s towns and cities safe.”

Mr. Bush’s support was “important for the future of the president’s relations with members of Congress,” said Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who is chairwoman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and the lead Senate negotiator.

Families of several 9/11 victims held hands and wept as the House passed the legislation. Bill Harvey, a New Yorker whose wife, Sara Manley, was killed at the World Trade Center a month after the couple wed, said the victory was also a sad reminder.

“The vote took 15 minutes, and it was pretty emotional. I thought about her during the 15 minutes of the vote,” he said.

The September 11 commission, in its July report, said disharmony among the nation’s 15 intelligence agencies contributed to the inability of government officials to stop the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The government failed to recognize the danger posed by Al Qaeda and was ill prepared to respond to the terrorist threat, the report concluded.

“We are going to create a more aggressive, a more vibrant, and a more organized intelligence community that is going to give policy-makers the information that they need to make the appropriate decisions,” said Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “It’s also going to give and continue to give very, very good information to our war-fighters.”

The bill includes a host of antiterrorism provisions, such as allowing officials to wiretap “lone wolf” terrorists and improving airline baggage screening procedures.

The bill also calls for increases in the number of full-time border patrol agents by 2,000 a year for five years and imposes new federal standards on information that must be contained on driver’s licenses.