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Congress in Joint Session. Its members, consisting of 100 senators and 435 representatives, are all elected by the people. The United States Capitol building, serving as the legislative branch of the United States federal government. The United States is a constitutional republic, meaning that its government is composed of and operates through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in the United States Constitution. Specifically, the nation operates as a presidential system also known as a congressional system. There are three levels of government: federal, state, and local. Each level enjoys certain exclusive powers and obligations, and the precise division of these powers has been a matter of considerable ongoing debate. Officials of each of these levels are either elected by eligible voters via secret ballot or appointed by other elected officials. Almost all electoral offices are decided in "first-past-the-post" elections, where a specific candidate who earns at least a plurality of the vote is elected to office, rather than a party being elected to a seat to which it may then appoint an official. 

The federal government of the United States is comprised of a Legislative Branch (led by Congress), an Executive Branch (led by the President), and a Judicial Branch (led by the Supreme Court). These three branches were designed to apply checks and balances on each other. The Constitution limits the powers of the federal government to defense, foreign affairs, the issuing and management of currency, the management of trade and relations between the states, as well as the protection of human rights. All other government powers theoretically repose in the individual states. However, in addition to these explicitly stated powers, the federal government has gradually extended its power into such areas as welfare and education, on the basis of the "Necessary and Proper" and "Commerce" clauses of the Constitution. The constitutionality of this extension of powers has been ruled on by the Supreme Court on numerous occasions, citing the above clauses. 

Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected as a president of United States of America. Mr. Obama is first black American president of United States. Obama gained concrete victory in the present US presidential election by successfully leading in the US states of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. By winning this historical election, Senator Obama is going to be 44th president of United States.  

Mr. Barack Hussein Obama took his oath on January 20, 2009. Whole inauguration of Barack Obama took place in the building built by the slave labour; black Americans have a trebled history of evolution and change. 

Mr. Barak Hussein Obama is the great admirer of since and technology. Important scientific reforms are present in his agenda. He has a strong support for the two evolutionary sciences of stem cells and Environmental changes. Other burning issues are

• American economic incentive
• American Healthcare reforms
• Global Climate change
• Handling after-effects of Iraq/Afghanistan wars
• Question of Closing Guantanamo detention centers
• Strengthening American relations with all major countries of the world
• Support for the Labours