Chris Hollen actually said...

"I do think that the automatic feature is essential to deterrence."

"part of the reason they did this was not to deter Putin's action but to deter this Congress from moving forward."

"The entire purpose of putting this in statute with some automatic types of severe responses is to take away the uncertainty..."

"the more we can make it clear in advance that there will be consequences if we catch the Russians interfering in our elections again, and that they will be severe, the more likely we are to deter that..."