Chris Van Hollen actually said...

"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..."

"if we do not take action and we do not make it clear what the consequences of action are, they are going to run all over us."

"I just find it astounding that the President of the United States has asked Congress to just pass this proposal that we have not even seen through here without Canada."