Anybody Else Catch This?

According to Reuters (excerpted):

Venezuela expanded a controversial program on Thursday of subsidizing costly home-heating oil for the U.S. poor with a pact in Maine...

Venezuela...donated 8 million gallons (36 million litres) of heating oil at a 40 percent discount to Maine, the third northeastern U.S. state to receive what Venezuela calls its "humanitarian aid."

Donations to the U.S. poor by Citgo, Venezuela's state-owned oil company's U.S. division, now total an estimated $38 million in three states -- Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Rhode Island will receive a similar donation on Friday.

"This is wonderful," said Mary Lyons, whose husband's small pension and social security benefits barely cover monthly heating bills that are up 40 percent from last winter following the surge in global oil prices.

Next to a table in her driveway where Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed Thursday's pact with Citgo's chief executive Felix Rodriguez, she thanked the Venezuelan government. "This is a big help," she said.

Oh wow, yeah. Dude. That's good. Stuff for the poor. From another country. Wait. What? Wait, isn't that sort of illegal? I'm pretty sure that's illegal. Not the getting stuff for the poor part, the part about the Governor of Maine signing a pact with Venezuela. Hold on a second, I'll find the relevant information.

Yep, here it is. It's from Article I Section 10 of the United States' Constitution:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress...enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power...

Signs O' The Times, you know?