but first, i wanted to ask rieva and mo about the nfib's new optimism index. it hit its lowest level since march 2010 at 88.1. it dropped 1.8 points in the last month. i want to just talk to you guys about this for a second. because you know, we have nfib on the other day, and awhile ago they were on and for the first time we were hearing some glimmers of optimism. then suddenly things just turned around again. in your network, you were concerned with different worlds. technology, where things a booming. what do you see out there? >> well, i mean, the point you made is a good one. obviously i'm a sector that is a growth sector of the economy. and hopefully will continue to be such for awhile. there's capital flowing into those businesses. and you know, we're seeing a share shift of advertising dollars to those businesses. >> so people are optimistic. >> and we're seeing commerce, in the emcommercial world just increasing tremendously on the web. so a lot of dollars are shifting to my world. so, you know, that's obviously a good thing for the tech sector. from

all of these entities, 126 states, and the nfib, were trying to stop it before then. you said, the core portion of this. the individual plan date requiring americans to get insurance and the reason why that's important, if you remember back to that vitriolic debate that caused so much con stern sxags led to the town halls and big republican victories in part, over the course of the last elections, it is because the administration wanted to have the 30 million americans who were uninsured have health insurance. if you are going to bring the insurance companies into -- it is important to expand the pool of people getting insurance and that was the reasoning behind requiring americans, all americans, to have health insurance and if you recall the argument much like having auto insurance is what everybody said. because you are required to have auto insurance. well, now the administration has asked the supreme court to take that up. the term begins, as you know, first monday in october. this could be taken up perhaps early next year in the spring. just as the republican pr

i'm pleased that the regulatory time-out act has been endorsed by the nfib, our nation's largest small business advocacy group, and by the small business and entrepreneurship council. my bill has always been welcomed by the u.s. chamber of commerce, which has stated, quote, "american businesses need immediate relief. a time-out would allow both the regulators and the regulated to take a deep breath and ensure that regulations are not destroying jobs and economic growth." mr. president, i agree completely. i i would ask that the letters from the nfib and the sbic and the statement by the chamber of commerce all be printed in the record at the conclusion of my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: mr. president, i'm honored to have the following colleagues as cosponsors of this one-year regulatory moratorium: senators alexander, barrasso, blunt, bozeman, coats, coburn, cornyn, hoeven, hutchinson, isakson, kyl, moran, and thune. mr. president, i urge all of our colleagues to support the regulatory timeout act, which is a critical step toward easing the regulatory

i would ask that the letters from the nfib and the fdic and the statement by the chamber c of commerce all be printed in the record at the conclusion of my remarks. >> without objection. >> mr. president, i am honored to have the following colleagues asregu co-sponsors of this one-year regulatory moratorium. senators alexander grosso boozman chambliss, coats coburn, cornyn copeland, hutchison, isakson, kyl, moran and then.lleahe mr. president, i urge all of our colleagues to support theegulor regulatory timeout act which is are a critical step towards easing the regulatory uncertainty andns costs that are keeping our job creators from getting americans back to work. thank you mr. president.eard >> mr. president, we all hope h heard thisis president's speech from the joint sessions of was congress last week about his proposal to bring forward a jobs bill that was released this an morning and the president indicated that he wanted to take his case to the people. and i'm glad he is doing so. i hope that as he travels abouthe the country, i think he will be hearing what many of us heard du