Inauguration Scalped

The official Presidential Inauguration for elect Barack Obama has been announced for January 20, 2009. The Inauguration is to take place in Washington D.C. with only 240,000 seats available. According to the Associated Press, scalped tickets to the ceremony are expected to be priced at least $40,000 online. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California is overseeing the entire ceremony and has urged internet sites such as ebay not to sell scalped inauguration tickets, and is even considering crafting a bill that would make it a federal crime to buy or sell scalped inauguartion tickets. According to http://www.courant.com/, the tickets are supposed to be free and distributed through congressional offices. In order to prevent scalping, tickets will not be released until shortly before the ceremony.