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Subcommitt subcommittee. Represents from advocacy and Veterans Service groups testified as well as officials with the departments of veterans affair, labor and housing and urban development. Subcommittee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its my pleasure to welcome you to todays subcommittee, joint subcommittee on health and subcommittee on Economic Opportunity oversight hearing on veteran homelessness. Want to apologize first for being a little late. I had another obligation in my responsibility on the budget committee, and my colleague, brad wenstrupu chair of the health subcommittee, will not be able to make it, so im going to preside. We have the vha subcommittee chair Julie Brownley and her capable leadership. Thanks for being here. My friend from texas and Ranking Member on the subcommittee for Economic Opportunity is joining me as well. We have our chairman whos joining us. Thank you, dr. Roe, for coming. I want to begin also by asking for unan
Former sanctions. Think about that. Thats something we ought to talk about. A similar scenario could be observed at the u. N. Security council. A unanimous vote by all 15 u. N. Security councilmembers would be need for sanctions to be put back in place. How many of us in this room believe that will actually happen . Do you believe that would . I dont. China and russia, both permanent members of the u. N. Security council have the most to gain from having unfettered access to iranian markets. Its been widely reported that russia is selling weapons to iran that makes the potential for israeli or american air strike just that much more difficult to carry out. Russia whorks own economy is hurting as a result of the sangs is looking to diversify its investments in other economies that show strong potential for growth. China is always looking for new sources of energy and with the elimination of internangs international sanctions, theyll have the ability to sell more oils on the internationa
Clearly, this is a lively debate. We are aware of that. I dont think it is a bad thing. We are particularly pleased to be here today, but i now call the leader of the social democratic group. Thank you, president schultz. Europe, without grace, is something unthinkable. As a social democrat. Greece is an essential part of europe and the euro zone. Without greece in the euro zone, europe would no longer be itself. And that is why we have opposed and will oppose extremist political speculations to our zone, europe would no longer be calling for greece to leave europe. I could quote what mr. Varoufakis would say. Or i could reply to statements that have been made by our colleague, mr. Weber. But i would prefer to undermine the sobriety, the seriousness, the constructiveness of the president. Who has for all of these months work to find a solution. A positive solution. Today is not the time for friends to apologize to each other. What is at stake is too serious for us to throw around with