have come in the spirit of being more neighborly, but he was hardly looking to just borrow a cup of sugar. >> american companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets. >> reporter: spend that money, the president said. >> so if i've got one message, my message is now is the time to invest in america. now is the time to invest in america. and if there's a reason that you don't share my confidence, if there is a reason that you don't believe that this is the time to get off the sidelines, to hire and to invest, i want to know about it. i want to fix it. >> reporter: the president signaled a new willingness to reconsider regulations that inhibit economic growth. one republican congressman asked businesses to write him with ideas for regulations that should be rescinded. more than 2,000 pages came in pretty quickly. the white house says some of those suggestions are nonstarters. they will not undo, for