Washington — Tens of thousands of Congressional constituents from around the country stood in lines for hours in 20-degree weather today to pick up their tickets to tomorrow's swearing-in ceremony of Hawaii son Barack Obama.

Cynthia Orlando, superintendent of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, brought Congresswoman Mazie Hirono a box of ginger cookies from the Big Island this morning, but was unprepared for the half-mile long line to get into the Longworth House Office Building next to the nation's Capitol Building,

"I was prepared for the cold," Orlando said. "I was not prepared for the lines."

Dozens of Hawaii residents brought boxes of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts, chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies and Hawaii-grown coffee to Hawaii's two senators and two representatives.