Maud wrote: > Third, I'd like to know the historical reasons for why the Speaker's > veto doesn't just kill the proposal.
You were on my side with this one, Maud. Veto used to "abort" proposals, but then we discovered that abortion was broken (CFJs 1549-1553) in a way that made any sort of voting period shortening/vote cancelling problematic so quorum-raising was a "temporary" kludge (the ladder used to good effect, this time). -Goethe
