On Tuesday, agents from the Department of Justice under Harris served a search warrant on the Huntington Beach apartment of David Daleiden, an activist whose release of undercover video recordings last summer triggered that funding vote in Congress.
While counties foot the bill for some elections costs, states are generally responsible for allocating resources to fund voting equipment, ballots, compensation for local election officials, and dissemination of voter information.
Like Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, has used an oil bonanza to fund vote-winning social spending while blowing raspberries at the United States and, by extension, at liberal orthodoxy.
In other words, more than 80percentt of the legislators ExxonMobil funded voted against the company's stated position.
He and his allies insist it was a funding vote.
Areas most in receipt of EU funding voted heavily to leave.
The sit-in started around midday on Wednesday – and though the House officially adjourned for recess at 3.19am on Thursday, with a Republican-backed funding vote on Zika – a handful of haggard Democrats have stayed on.
But here's why Thursday's funding vote is most troublesome.
But that comes only after Republican voters (not cigar-smoking, hedge-fund managing, casino-running, PAC funding, vote-surpressing, Establishment deal-makers) decide on the nominee.
In addition, while presidents have cited congressional funding votes as tacit endorsement of their actions, the Act (Sec 8 (a)(1)) specifically prohibits any appropriation from being "intended to constitute specific statutory authorization".
