article_snippet: The hearing itself was to be an exploration of Joseph Clancy budget request for the 2016 fiscal year - including the $8 million Joseph Clancy is asking for to build a scale replica White House.
article_snippet: A SECOND WHITE HOUSE?
article_snippet: Secret Service wants to build a scale model of the presidential mansion in Maryland so agents can be trained in a facility that's just like the real thing
article_snippet: Joseph Clancy's budget request included $8 million to build a scale model of the White House in a Maryland suburb for training purposes, in the hope that other institutional face-palm moments might not repeat other institutional face-palm moments.
article_snippet: In the last year a series of fence jumpers have made it onto White House grounds, including one who breached the building itself while carrying a knife in his pocket.
article_snippet: The US Secret Service currently uses a rudimentary, not-to-scale simulation of the north grounds of the White House, using bike barricades to act as the fencing,' Joseph Clancy said. '
article_snippet: The carbon copy of America's presidential mansion, if Congress approves, would be built in Beltsville, Maryland, about 20 miles from the real White House, on 500 acres that already serve as a The US Secret Service training site.
highlights_snippet: Joseph Clancy was asking for cash to build $8 million replica of the White House in Maryland so agents can be trained better .