me thinks he is a bit worried

Let them pay for their own security, the title ensures them of a lifetime of high living just for making appearances.

So, will Bill and Hill have to start packing now?

One gets used to an entourage carry guns I guess.

One of the few good decisions the kenyan klown has made.
That runaway democtratic congress of 1994 was being punitive, in my opinion.

I bet the jerk didn´t use the autopen on that one.

So,
Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena had lifetime protection.

Because you can never spend too much on politicians... the new royalty.

This makes me angry. I really like Rep. Gowdy but this is absolute horse hockey and he knows it. Ridiculous.

Who´s gonna pay the tab? We will be broke before the BigEared guy´s term is up.

So, they have to squeeze every drop of blood from tax payers!!

I don´t have a problem with this. I think former POTUSes should be protected on our dime. Billy and Hilly were covered under the old rules; the only ones not covered were GW and POTUSes forward.

Good point #7. I expect that thought has crossed the One´s mind

The Presidet of the United States is just a man. He is not royal or devine, no matter what they may think of themselves. If they feel the need for security, they should foot the bill themselves.

He threw Bush in there to appear bi-partisan.

Protection for me, not for thee...

The PuppetPresident never was personally useful so I don´t see the reason to protect when him when he´s out of office; but I would like to have his marionette id´d.

Another reason faux Potusmust be exposed and thrown out.
Americans should not have to support this false POTUS and his racist wife/

More proof that we´re living in the Fall of the Roman Republic.

I´m will to pay for Secret Service protection for them, but only if the Secret Service is not allowed to carry guns

Guns kill people.

He really, really wanted it to be as of 2009, but even The Won didn´t have the gonads to do that....

If anyone is going to need lifelong secret service protection, it probably is presidents Obama and Bush. I hate the idea of spending money on them when they have so much themselves, but it´s got to be a reality that bin laden´s remaining slimeball army would probably do them in if they could. I think we should foot this one, the maggots are still out there.

Nothing more than CYA!

...contrary to what Obama would have you believe, al Qaida is still out there. Maybe now he will quit lying about it, though shame has never been a concept he´s familiar with.

Given what any President knows about national security - even 20 years after being in office - and that most of them have the resistance power in rough interrogation of probably the average civilian - this one isn´t difficult to me. Lots of other things are but not this.

19- Exactly. no guns allowed! Th SS will wear big buttons that will say: " We do not carry guns"

Is Obe merely providing for his protection after the impeachment?
G W Bush proved in 2004 he could protect his own safety AND rescue his top SS protector during the incident in So America.
His Pappy as VP also showed his ability when he walked alone unarmed into a hostile situation to retrieve a held Gov. official once again So. America.
Oliver North along for the ride told that story of courage.
Too bad the Bengazzi 4 didn´t have that kind of top guns.

What timing!!! ...How ironic 0bama would sign this bill protecting himself at the very time he & his Administration is trying to repeal the Second Amendment Right of law abiding citizens to bear arms. mmm mmm mmm

But then, 0bama IS a, ´Do as I say, not as I do,´ kind of pol. sigh
(Couldn´t he just call 911? s/)

Will they be armed????....With Guns????

He is one paranoid little sob. He´s a Marxist and he knows that we know he´s a Marxist.

I hate to think that this nothingburger, atheist, terrorist sympathizer will be living high on taxpayer funding for 40 years after he leaves office. But it would be far, far worse for him to be martyred for his diabolical cause.
Ramona (the Pest)

Curious timing - right before the Great Gun Grab.

What´s next, lifetime vacations for them too ? Lifetime hair straightening and make up staff or ex-first ladies who need them ?

Is this a law or executive order? It´s hard to tell the difference these days.

It was noted a few weeks ago that Chelsea Clinton still had security detail. Anyone have some facts?

Security with himself in mind ?

I´m not very smart so can someone please tell me the last time a retired president had his life threatened?

I did not read the bill, but doesn´t it also guarantee life-long protection for all the congresscritters too.

Just think, that crazy Grayson and Pete Stark will have armed guards for life. Now, how much is all of this lifetime protection costing the taxpayer?

What are they doing to our lives that they are so worried about their lives. Some pigs are more equal than others.

Oh brother.....

Another spend what you don´t have....

I think there´s a "special" saying about people who do this....

LZK

What U scared about "O"?

In today´s world, when will protection for their children and their wives be added?

Nixon opted out of Secret Service protection after his presidency and hired private security.

A couple of days ago would have been Richard Nixon´s 100th birthday. Say what you want about Nixon but, though he was entitled to Secret Service protection, he declined it. I actually saw him get out of a car he had been driving himself and walk into Yankee Stadium. It was astonishing. Look, I don´t want anything bad to happen to any President. It´s an attack on the nation itself. But ex-Presidents make millions upon millions for doing absolutely nothing. Pay for it yourself!

What´s the back story to the protection being removed in 1994?

Did Zero make a little exception to include his own kids and Moochelle´s mother after 2016?

Seems to me there has been a king or two in history who have been taken care by someone in the inner circle when their usefulness has been used up...

Where there is smoke there is fire.
I have to wonder about the threat level against his black butt.

So this Trey Gowdy of South Carolina thinks that these guys are so great they need lifetime protection, because of terrorist threats. Yet they are debating whether ordinary citizens should be able to protect themselves with guns because guns are dangerous? Will someone please tell me that this country is not in a mess and it lacks common sense?

Of all the awful things this guy has done, this is low on my ticked-off list. We are still the greatest country in the world and protecting our former POTUS should not be something to cry about. Imagine a former POTUS getting kidnapped and held hostage by any one of several terrorist groups. We´d then spend millions getting him/her back and seeking revenge. Cheaper this way. And yes, our secret service are better than rent a cops. Let´s protect them the right way and send that message. In the future, it´s possible we would have a POTUS who becomes ill and doesn´t have that much $$ to hire guns.

I don´t mind paying agents to protect them, but I do mind paying for agents that these people turn into servants--carrying luggage, cleaning cars, fetching coffee, etc. Clintons were famous for that.

I thought he was against guns. No wonder people just shake their heads at everything he does. The press is so quiet about this guy. Do they realize the dangerous game they´re playing?

In a way it´s fitting. He will have no privacy in perpetuity. Of course he will look upon them as Barack Hussein´s Republican Guard.

Back in the early 80´s I had a friend who was a SS agent. He told me that the worst possible duty assignment in the SS was that of guarding Jimmah in Plains, GA. Guarding the black trash in Hawaii would probably be a pretty good gig, at least when one if off duty.

We have been paying for their protection for a period of ten years. That was ample.

To pay for every former president AND HIS WIFE for life is unreasonable. Who wants to kill aany of them after they have been out of office for ten years?

Obama can´t find enough ways to spend money can he? But he keeps at it.

Jimmy Carter is STILL using the Parks Dept. to clean his pool and manicure the yard , to the tune of umpteen bucks . Any bets on what this POS will end up with ?. I´d have to say the Hawaiian villa for starters . And don´t forget to throw in a free 747 with all the luxuries . American people , you voted for him , so EAT CAKE .

Biden is going to announce the government´s big ambition to control our guns tomorrow. Coincidental that OB One is worried today? I think not.

So how many former Presidents have been assassinated? No reason that a wealthy former President and his family cannot decline USSS protection and hire personal security (most of who are retired USSS and Special Ops) . And if you look at the history of terrorist atatcks on Americans - they´ve gone after the average American.

He is not a lawful president, he is a squatter in chief, who is using forged IDs and belongs in prison

Oh, so he forces US to pay gun toting folks to protect him and then has the audacity to try to take our guns away from us so we are basically defenseless...got it!

who is obama afaid of..if he is taking our guns away it must be someone in another country..or will he be doing something so outragish after he takes Amerikans guns that he will need protection...

I would like to know who protected all those legless, armless, faceless men and women who were maimed and slaughtered under Bush in Iraq. For Nothing! Tell me for what?
These gory high fillutin presidents deserve nothing.

#60...If only you had run the RNC during the last election Fraudobama would be packing permanently for Hawaii....

Isn´t that what the wall between agencies was about for Clinton?

Perhaps, Obama knows that the muslim terrorists he dispatches with his drones have friends and relatives who won´t soon forget. But, he has more cause to worry about a threat from a different direction. He´s storing up a lot of divine wrath with his selling the Jews off to the ravenous wolves of the Islamic world and payback is coming. There is no human protection that can protect him when divine retribution comes.

I think ex-presidents should have armed protection but perhaps they should pay for it themselves. If they can earn millions on speaking engagements, they should be able to pay for their bodyguards and not burden an already broke country.