On Thursday, American intel and security chiefs made a show of force (to the public, and one assumes, to the president) by attending a press briefing to confirm Russia’s continued attacks on US elections. Now a bipartisan (yes, you read that right) group of Senators is pushing a tough bill that “would create new criminal penalties for anyone who targets election systems and slap sanctions on political figures, oligarchs, and others who engage in ‘illicit and corrupt activities’ on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”