EVAN VUCCI / ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a ‘USA Thank You’ tour event on Dec. 1 in Cincinnati. Congressman Lou Barletta of Hazleton was flooded with 9,000 requests so far to see Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, like Congressman Lou Barletta of Hazleton, get to hand out 198 tickets for the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States.