[MileHi]

...to succeed current Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who is term-limited, for the high-profile gavel.

Term limited how?

[maggief]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/us/politics/seeing-the-benefits-of-term-limits-for-committee-heads.html

a policy introduced in 1994 by Speaker Newt Gingrich that limited Republicans to no more than six years as committee chairmen.