I had a meeting with Rep. Filner about a month ago. Do you know what he said? I was astonished that he would have said what he said in front of me. It was very difficult for him, but he did. He said, "Listen, do you want me to do that so that APEC will come after me the way that they came after Cynthia McKinney?"

There were a couple of votes that were coming up in the House and I was asking him to vote against or not to sponsor them. One of them was the Syria Act. There were a group of people in the House of Representatives that were trying to name certain activities in Syria, a couple of foundations if you don't do this, this will happen and so on. Especially after the Iraq situation they thought that they could put pressure on Syria...

When it came to the Syria act, he said, "I won't sponsor it, but if it comes to the floor of the House, I can't vote against it.