If congress were to mandate ATP minimums for Regionals I would be really excited because then there would be no way for the pilot factories to crank out enough guys to fill all the holes. It would simply be too expensive to buy that much time. There would actually be a big shortage and management would be forced to pay us more to atract people back to the profession. Unfortunately the big airline lobbyists will come up with some way to allow even lower timed people into the cockpit. God forbid anyone pays a "professional pilot" a professional wage.