House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) declared Thursday that Democrats would pass a $15 minimum wage in the "first 100 hours" if they retake the House in 2018.
Pelosi made the remarks alongside fellow Democratic leaders, according to Politico.
If "we win the election," Pelosi told the gathered audience, "in the first 100 hours we will pass a $15 minimum wage."
The California Democrat conspicuously harkened back to 2007, when her caucus raised the minimum wage to its current level of $7.25 as part of an ambitious campaign for its first 100 hours in power. That 10-year-old agenda also included lowering the interest rate on student loans and allowing the government to negotiate drug prices under Medicare.
Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House, holding the gavel from 2007 to 2011. Democrats have been shut out of the majority in four consecutive elections, starting with the 2010 Tea Party sweep.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) endorsed the $15 minimum wage as a key facet of his left-wing, populist platform for the presidency. Pelosi came on board for the measure in 2015, and Democrats are making a minimum wage increase a priority in their midterm agenda.
The American Action Forum said in February that federal minimum wage increases would result in the loss of nearly two million jobs over the next several years.