if they don’t know the expression to table that [idea] for now. Greenbeards sonetimes get confused by tabling used as a verb. I think it’s unintuitive.
This one is tricky because it goes opposite ways across the pond. In the UK Parliament to table a bill means they’re going to bring it up for consideration right now. In fact bills and motions under consideration are actually laid out on that central table in the House of Commons.
In US Congress, a motion to lay on the table is a request to halt consideration on a bill for an indefinite (and probably infinite) period. There is no physical table in the US Congress where dead bills are placed.
This one is tricky because it goes opposite ways across the pond. In the UK Parliament to table a bill means they’re going to bring it up for consideration right now. In fact bills and motions under consideration are actually laid out on that central table in the House of Commons.
In US Congress, a motion to lay on the table is a request to halt consideration on a bill for an indefinite (and probably infinite) period. There is no physical table in the US Congress where dead bills are placed.