Five days after his inauguration as the forty-second president of the United States, Bill Clinton appointed his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to head a task force responsible for drafting national health care reform legislation. Clinton was making good on a campaign promise to tackle an issue that had risen to national political prominence in the wake of Harris Wofford's upset victory in Pennsylvania's 1991 special election for the U.S. Senate. Clinton pledged that the task force would finish its work and that he would submit his plan to Congress within one hundred days. Due, however, to a more difficult than expected battle over his budget plan as well as various scandals and staff mistakes, Clinton's plan was not ready until late summer.