Editing Nancy Pelosi (section)

===Healthcare reform===

Pelosi has been credited for spearheading Obama's health care law, the [[Affordable Care Act]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.academia.edu/35311502|first=Ryan J.|last=Gautreaux|title=Framing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:A Content Analysis of Democratic and Republican Twitter Feeds|date=Summer 2016|access-date=March 26, 2020|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120195817/https://www.academia.edu/35311502/Framing_the_Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act_A_Content_Analysis_of_Democratic_and_Republican_Twitter_Feeds|url-status=live}}</ref> when it seemed doomed to defeat. After Republican [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]] won Democrat [[Ted Kennedy]]'s former Senate seat in the [[United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010|January 2010 Massachusetts special election]], costing Democrats their 60-seat [[Senate filibuster|filibuster]]-proof majority, Obama agreed with his then chief of staff [[Rahm Emanuel]]'s idea to do smaller initiatives that could pass easily. But Pelosi dismissed Obama's compunction, mocking his scaled-back ideas as "kiddie care".<ref>{{cite news |last=Bzdek |first=Vince |date=March 28, 2010 |title=Why it took a woman to fix health care |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> After convincing him that this was their only shot at health care reform because of the large Democratic majorities in Congress, she rallied her caucus as she began an "unbelievable marathon" of a two-month session to craft the bill, which passed the House 219–212. In Obama's remarks before signing the bill into law, he called Pelosi "one of the best speakers the House of Representatives has ever had."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125294497 |title=Health Care Overhaul Boosts Pelosi's Clout |last=Seabrook |first=Andrea |date=March 29, 2010 |website=[[NPR]] |access-date=April 5, 2018 |archive-date=August 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825171000/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125294497 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="healthcarereform" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34753.html|title=Nancy Pelosi steeled White House for health push|first1=Carrie Budoff|last1=Brown|first2=Glenn|last2=Thrush|authorlink2=Glenn Thrush|date=March 20, 2010 |work=[[Politico]]}}</ref><ref name ="nytimesmagazinehealthcare" />