delaying tactic, said that "it's laughable to say it's obstructionism to allow the minority to have five or six amendment votes." Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), who co-sponsored the bill, argued that "this bill is good for American jobs and good for American energy security." After the vote to end cloture failed, Portman said that "today's failure to move forward on a bipartisan energy-efficiency bill is yet another disappointing example of Washington's dysfunction." According to Margot Anderson, the executive director of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Energy Project, the changes made by the bill "aren't huge, bold things." Her concern with the failure of the bill was the loss of momentum on energy because "people are worried that if we can't even pass that, we're not in good shape to tackle the bigger stuff." The Alliance to Save Energy was in favor of the bill, arguing that the bill "will help speed the transition to a more energy efficient economy, increasing both our economic competitiveness and our energy security for the coming decades, while driving economic growth and encouraging private sector job creation." The Natural Resources Defense Council also supported the bill, because the bill's "broadly supported goals are to save taxpayer dollars, promote job growth, and cut carbon pollution by increasing investments in energy efficient buildings and technologies." A coalition of organizations, including Heritage Action for America, Americans for Prosperity, American Energy Alliance, the American Conservative Union, FreedomWorks and others, argued against the bill. According to the coalition, the bill is not "voluntary" as it advertises, because it "authorizes $200 million of taxpayer money to 'incentivize and assist' states and tribal groups to meet allegedly voluntary building codes" which the "taxpayer did not volunteer" to pay for. They also charge that the bill promotes corporate welfare and is duplicative of existing federal and state programs, pointing a Department of Energy "list of more than 4,200 state programs including targeted tax breaks, rebate programs, revolving loans, low-interest loans and regulations" the promote "efficiency measures and renewable energy." See also List of bills in the 113th United States Congress Energy in the United States Energy policy of the United States United States energy independence References External links Library of Congress - Thomas S. 2262 beta.congress.gov S. 2262 GovTrack.us S. 2262 OpenCongress.org S. 2262 WashingtonWatch.com S. 2262 Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress United States federal energy legislation Energy conservation in the