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How to Get Tickets to the Inauguration Tickets to the 56th Inaugural Ceremonies will be provided free of charge and distributed through Members of the 111th Congress. The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies does not provide tickets to the public. Members of the public interested in attending the Inaugural Ceremonies should contact their Member of Congress or U.S. Senators to request tickets. PCOL Comment: We've already contacted both our senators and our congressman and gotten on their waiting list for tickets and we've been told that we have a pretty good chance to get tickets but it's first come, first serve, so call your representatives now and get on their waiting lists. Hopefully, we'll see you at the inauguration on January 20. This is going to be a historical event on par with JFK's inauguration in 1960. How to Get Tickets to the Inauguration How to Get Inauguration Tickets The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has finally put out a press release about how to go about getting tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009. Here's what the release says: Tickets to the 56th Inaugural Ceremonies will be provided free of charge and distributed through Members of the 111th Congress. The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies does not provide tickets to the public. Members of the public interested in attending the Inaugural Ceremonies should contact their Member of Congress or U.S. Senators to request tickets. The public should also be aware that no website or other ticket outlet actually has inaugural swearing-in tickets to sell, regardless of what they may claim. Tickets will not be distributed to Congressional offices until the week before the inauguration and will require in-person pick-up. “Any website or ticket broker claiming that they have inaugural tickets is simply not telling the truth,” said Howard Gantman, Staff Director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. “Tickets for the swearing-in of President-elect are all provided through members of Congress, and the President-elect and Vice President-elect through the Presidential Inaugural Committee. We urge the public to view any offers of tickets for sale with great skepticism.” This morning D.C. Wire reported that D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's office has already fielded 1,000 phone calls from constituents looking for inauguration tickets, but that Norton has no idea how many tickets she'll actually get. Given that we only have the one delegate and no senators, sounds like it's possible D.C. residents could end up getting the shaft as far as how many tickets are allotted to us versus the similarly-sized states - though we won't know that for sure until the tickets are sent out in January. In the meantime, you can try calling Norton's office and ask to be put on a waiting list, or else find someone who lives in a congressional district to put in a request to their representative for you and then arrange for them to be here to pick up the ticket in person, with ID.
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