Save the Greenback is an organization of U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing employees and paper and ink suppliers opposed to phasing out the paper dollar. The group formed to counter the influence of the Coin Coalition. Their website was inactive as of July 2012.
Public opinion has tended to favor the dollar bill, although in 2000, the Government Accountability Office reported that a full implementation of the dollar coin could save $500 million a year. Save the Greenback successfully prevented a dollar bill phaseout with the help of legislators influenced by special interest groups including Mississippi Senator Trent Lott and Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. Lott's constituency included the powerful cotton industry, which produces fabrics used in the paper dollar; Kennedy's included the Crane Paper Company which produces American banknote paper.
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