TANYA GREENE New York, July 18, 2013 The writer is an advocacy and policy counsel, American Civil Liberties Union.
Neil Trautwein, employee benefits policy counsel at the National Retail Federation, said businesses had expected initial rules last year.
Mr. Paterson hired him as a senior policy counsel and speechwriter in August 2004.
"This announcement is something for consumers to celebrate," said Parul P. Desai, the policy counsel for Consumers Union.
The bridegroom, 28, is a policy counsel for Free Press, a nonprofit organization in Washington that advocates for media reform.
"It's a slow death," said Ami Gadhia, policy counsel for Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.
"However, CCIA is unable to support CISA as it is currently written," the association's policy counsel wrote.
Corie Wright, the senior policy counsel for Free Press, a media reform group that favors the change, disputed those comments.
Michael German Washington, Sept. 28, 2010 The writer is policy counsel for the A.C.L.U. and a former F.B.I. special agent.
The bridegroom, also 34, is a judiciary and homeland security policy counsel to the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Washington.
