House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is calling for more engagement with younger lawmakers within the ranks of House Democrats as she faces a leadership challenge from Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio).

In a letter to colleagues, Pelosi lays out a list of changes to leadership rolls as the party prepares for President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE to take office with a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate.

Her proposals include creating vice chair positions on each committee to be filled by members who have served on the committee for three terms or less. She also put forth a provision that would make the assistant to the leader role an elected one, served by a member who has been in Congress for less than three terms.

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"I want to move this along as quickly as possible — not hastily, because we want to get input from everybody — but as quickly as possible because we have some real issues to deal with,” Pelosi told Politico on an interview Monday.

The letter comes as Ryan, Pelosi’s challenger for the party’s top position in the House, argues that Democrats need to act soon to remain “a national party.”

“I’m pulling the fire alarm right now is what I’m doing in the Democratic Party. I believe we’re in denial of what’s happened. I’m pulling the fire alarm because the house is burning down,” Ryan told Fox Business Network Monday. "And we better get our act together or we’re going to cease being a national party. We’re going to be a regional party that fails to get into the majority and fails to do things on behalf of those working class people that were the backbone of the Democratic Party for so long.”

Pelosi, who has served as the minority leader since 2011, is taking a page out of her 2006 playbook, when she served as Speaker after the Democrats took control of the House.

“In the course of my conversations with Members, I was especially interested in their desire to have a stronger role in their committees. This is music to my ears, because that is exactly what was essential to our success in 2006,” she wrote in the Monday letter.

Pelosi argued in the letter that Democrats need to prepare for the fight against Republicans on issues like Medicare and stop Trump’s proposed infrastructure plan.

"I'm not asking anyone to support me for what I have done, one thing or another, whether it's politics or policy or money. I'm asking them to support me on what I will do in the future,” she said in the interview with Politico.