Washington (CNN) After multiple slip-ups that critics say could've put President Barack Obama and his family at risk, the Secret Service wants to try something new: Training on a replica White House.

An $8 million White House replica, to be exact.

During a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee on the agency's budget request, Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy outlined an $8 million request to build a better replica to train his agents.

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"Right now, we train on a parking lot, basically," Clancy said. "We put up a makeshift fence and walk off the distance between the fence at the White House and the actual house itself. We don't have the bushes, we don't have the fountains, we don't get a realistic look at the White House."

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