  The continuum Yang-Mills functional integral within the first order formalism
and in Coulomb gauge is studied. In particular, the temporal zero-modes of the
Faddeev-Popov operator are explicitly accounted for. It is shown that the
treatment of these zero-modes results in the constraint that the total color
charge of the system vanishes at all times. Further, it is argued that the
functional integral is effectively fully gauge-fixed once Gauss' law has been
resolved in Coulomb gauge.
