Mike Rounds actually said...

The American Congress is not the Russian Duma, that what it intends, if it pursues it and stays with it, is something that he should be afra...

It still requires Congress to move forward with specific legislation that would codify what these sanctions could be.

That was the intent of the Secure Elections Act, which a number of us are sponsors or cosponsors of.

I think his intent was to not simply say this is what we are going to do but, rather, to say there will be consequences.