Word: unseating
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...specific service. He steers himself to a committee assignment (agriculture, military affairs) where he can best serve the dominant interests of his district, and if he sits there long enough he can become one of those committee barons whom the rest of the nation may deplore but cannot unseat...
Another bright sign from the caucus came when they voted to unseat F. Edward Hebert as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, a post which he has held since 1971. During his tenure, he supported the bombing of Cambodia against the will of a majority of the House, and frequently endorsed and lobbied for defense projects so outlandish that even the Nixon administration opposed them...
...Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel and a seven-year P.O.W., battled Democrat Larry McDonald for a seat in Congress and lost. Maine Democrat Markham L. Gartley, 30, a onetime Navy lieutenant who spent four years in a P.O.W. camp, had no chance to unseat Republican William Cohen of House Judiciary Committee fame...
...battle in the conference committee was over applying the public funding idea to senatorial and congressional races. House members, who have to run for office every other year, were particularly loath to provide ready funds for opponents seeking to unseat them. Some critics of the House bill, which provided public financing only for presidential campaigns, tagged it the Incumbents' Protection...
...Democratic side, the picture is more complicated. Loyalists of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy insist that their favorite has emerged a winner from the resolution of Watergate. Kennedy, they argue, has the personal magnetism needed to unseat Ford in 1976. "Ford's going to run a personality campaign," says one Democratic strategist, and "I've been hearing people say that Ted's the only candidate we have with a personality strong enough to move people...