Chris Hollen actually said...

"the Executive order is like the DETER Act we introduced, except without the certainty and without the assurance of penalty."

"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..."

"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."