The final number is in: Each House
member will get 198 inauguration tickets, Roll Call reports. Only 21 of those,
however, are for seats. The rest are for the right to stand inside a security
perimeter.
The announcement came this morning
during a briefing for newly elected House members. The Senate numbers haven't
been announced yet, but presumably, those allotments will be greater.
Still, offices have been inundated
with thousands of ticket requests. Politico reported last week that
Senator Jim Webb (Va.) alone had gotten more than 26,000. (His office has argued
that since Virginia is close to DC and home to many federal employees, it should
get more tickets than other states).
--Seyward Darby