Editing Nancy Pelosi (section)

===The "Hundred Hours"===
{{Main|100-Hour Plan}}

Before the midterm elections, Pelosi announced that if Democrats gained a House majority, they would push through most of their agenda during the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress.<ref>{{cite news|last=Espo|first=David|title=Pelosi Says She Would Drain GOP 'Swamp'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600056.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=October 6, 2013|date=October 6, 2006|quote=...{{spaces}}As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats—in her fondest wish—win control in the November{{spaces}}7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194821/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600056.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=One Hundred Hours|url=https://huffingtonpost.com/rep-nancy-pelosi/one-hundred-hours_b_33529.html|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|access-date=October 6, 2013|last=Pelosi|first=Nancy |date=November 7, 2006|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194802/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-hundred-hours_b_33529|url-status=live}}</ref>

The "first hundred hours" was a play on President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s promise for quick action to combat the [[Great Depression]] during his [[Hundred Days Congress|"first hundred days"]] in office. Newt Gingrich, who became speaker of the House in 1995, had a similar 100-day agenda to implement his [[Contract with America]].