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...

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

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 th...

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