The entire purpose of putting this in statute with some automatic types of severe responses is to take away the uncertainty...
part of the reason they did this was not to deter Putin's action but to deter this Congress from moving forward.
I do think that the automatic feature is essential to deterrence.
the Executive order is like the DETER Act we introduced, except without the certainty and without the assurance of penal...
the more we can make it clear in advance that there will be consequences if we catch the Russians interfering in our ele...
I would think that you would all know about it given your work on trade.
The President has said if Canada does not agree to whatever changes that we want, we should go forward without Canada.
We have clearly not deterred Russian efforts to interfere in our elections.
No bill is perfect as introduced, and Senator Rubio and I are very open to making those changes.
Priority number one needs to be defending the integrity of our democracy and our election system.
If you cross this threshold, you will face these penalties.