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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.
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The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is expected to print 250,000 tickets for viewing from the Capitol grounds and the Mall.
So understand that you wont get close to viewing the ceremony and Obama's inaugural address w/o a ticket.
Another million people are expected to line the parade route along Pennsylvania Ave between the Capitol and the White House.
Tickets to Ceremony Limited; Viewing Area Isn'tSeveral congressional members' offices said they had been so deluged with calls requesting tickets that they were planning to set up Web sites, probably by tomorrow, to take requests.