All tours are free of admission and tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Please submit your tour requests by filling in your zip code below as soon as you know the dates you will be available for tours in Washington. During peak tour season, March through August, we recommend placing your request two or three months in advance.

Tours generally run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  When submitting your date availability, please indicate in the comments box specifically when you will be available. We will begin booking tours within the indicated range upon receipt of your request.

If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Schroeder at (202) 225-3031.

Notice: White House Cancels Tours
The White House announced on March 5, 2013 that White House tours are being canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013 until further notice due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration.

Sequestration, as you may know, is the term for the mandatory federal budget cuts that went into effect March 1 under the terms of a bipartisan budget law enacted in 2011.  Under sequestration, federal agencies and offices are required to find ways to reduce unnecessary spending within their budgets, and to do more with less, as many American families are being forced to do in the current economy. 

While I’m disappointed the White House has chosen to comply with sequestration by cutting public tours, I’m pleased to assure you that public tours of the United States Capitol and other sites will continue.  Under the leadership of the House officers and their teams, who oversee daily operations in the Capitol in consultation with the Office of the Speaker, planning for the possibility of sequestration has been underway for some time.  Consequently, alternative spending reductions have been implemented within the Capitol complex to ensure public tours and other regular activities can proceed as they normally would.

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