Committee on Homeland Security, congressman thompson, and i quote, he stated within the next five years, the secret service will provide protection through two president ial election cycles two Democratic National conventions, two Republican National conventions, the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and other National Security special events. To his point, on top of your current responsibilities, of protecting the president and protecting your area of responsibility, and we know that theres some problems with leadership resources. Were also entering a period where theres going to be additional demand. My background is in hr and i know that when you start hiring and training, there is a gap in your resources. So we have to be realistic about that. For us to get to where we need to be, were going to have to pull resources that we already have. Do you agree with that . I think thats right. One of the concerns that the panel had, and again, pointing to the chart that the chairman put
From its investigative force for a president ial campaign but also with these usually receiving additional appropriations every four years, in order to plan for those campaigns, because the amount of travel which is very unpredictable increases. So i want to be clear that what we saw in the report will enable us to have an expectation that you will have the resources to address all of these concerns, because if this report your ask for resources only takes you up to a certain point to cover the existing concerns, then my concern is that were going to see additional gaps. And thats my concern right now. And i wanted to be clear that in the proposal, that we dont come back later and say, we still dont have the resources to do the job, knowing that all these additional things and the gap is going to be added. As an answer to that question, the proposal we made in terms of specific numbers was what we thought would address an immediate need. It was not intended to estimate how much the 201
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