Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) agreed on ABC’s This Week Sunday that the Secret Service needs more women, and each suggested that it would make incidents like the prostitution scandal in Colombia would be less likely to happen.
“I can’t help but wonder if there’d been more women as part of that detail if this ever would have happened,” Collins said.
“We agree on this. If there were more agents on the ground, maybe we would not have had this,” Maloney said. “I can’t help but keep asking this question: where are the women? We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women.”
Maloney said just 11 percent of Secret Service agents are women.
Both praised the leadership of Paula Reid, who heads up Secret Service details in Latin America, for her work in dealing with the scandal.
