Senator Dianne Feinstein: No Obama ticket scalping
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is overseeing President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony, introduced legislation Monday to criminalize scalping tickets to the historic event.
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House offices swamped with demand were being limited to just 198 tickets apiece and most had stopped taking requests. Senate offices were expecting a larger allotment —- 300-400 each —- but they, too, had many more requests than they could handle.
“This is going to be a major civic event of our time. Excitement is at an all-time high,” Feinstein, chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said on the Senate floor as she introduced her bill. “People are desperate to become part of it. … We could have more than 1.5 million people descend on the nation’s capital.”
The tickets are distributed for free, and Feinstein’s bill would make it illegal to sell or attempt to sell them. It also would be illegal to forge tickets.
Either crime would be a misdemeanor punishable by fines of up to $100,000 and a year in prison.
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