> I can't comment on British or Australian Parliamentary procedure, but in the > American version when a bill is "tabled" it's effectively dead. It's > essentially a way of killing a bill without voting up or down on it - > instead it's just kept in permanent limbo. >
Ahhh, you mean "shelved"? At least, that is what we call the process of quietly killing a parliamentary bill. And here you can only vote on a bill once it IS tabled. There I am, thinking how similar we all are and then something like a simple difference in the use of a word brings home how ... alien ... all you others are. ;-) Brett
