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"Thank you my colleagues, thank you leader (John) Boehner...| accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship, and I look forward to working with you Mr. Boehner and the Republicans in the Congress on behalf of the American people. After giving away this gavel in the last two Congress; I'm glad someone else had the honor today...My path to Congress... began in Baltimore where my father was mayor. | was raised in a large family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, very proud of our Italian American heritage... am so proud that my brother Tommy D'Alesandro, who was also a mayor of Baltimore, is here leading my D'Alesandro family today...This is an historic moment—and | thank the leader for acknowledging it. | thank you Leader Boehner. It is an historic moment for the Congress, and an historic moment for the women of this country. It is a moment for which we have waited over 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights. But women weren't just waiting; women were working. Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling. For our daughters and our granddaughters, the sky is the limit, anything is possible for them." - Nancy Pelosi Initial Address (2007) What does Ms. Pelosi refer to when she uses the phrase "marble ceiling?"

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