Drugs illegal for children . Will pass to legalize drugs unless it contains a provision that children are not allowed to use it. As a parent my message to my i would be naive to think you would not be trying these drugs. The problem with drugs is quality, quantity unknown. Its prohibition. Love you. Foremost, i if you find yourself in a position of being impaired, whether its drugs or alcohol of any kind, call me. Upill come and pick you because i love you. Thats what we need to tell our kids, that we love them. Mr. Peterson . The president has no Constitutional Authority to regulate drugs. I was supportevel legislation that would stop children from being allowed to purchase drugs and prosecute anyone who puts a child in danger. Need protection. You should not be able to sell hair went to a fiveyearold heroin to a fiveyearold. We canfeldman, before sell a drug it has to be tested to make sure its safe and effective. Congress has a similar mechanism for laws. Any law, theypass test it carefully to see its effect on campaign contributions. [laughter] parent would endanger their child, theres worse problems in that family than drugs. We need to go to the root of the problem, which generally is only made worse by government. Theres a lot of problems and a lot of suffering in the world. Adding criminal punishment doesnt help. Mr. Mcafee, would you make certain drugs illegal for children, please . If a child goes out to buy drugs and the parent doesnt know where they are, its a problem. If a child has money to buy drugs, where did they get it . When a child comes home stoned and you do not notice it, the problem is not with the seller of the drugs, its with the parents. [applause] governor johnson, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it discrimination in the private sector and the public sector. Senator Barry Goldwater voted against it for libertarian reasons. He did not feel it was the governments job to tell a private Business Owner what to do. Senator al gore senior voted against it because he opposed integration. If you had been in the senate, how would you have voted . I would have voted for it. No elaboration . No. Mr. Peterson. Repeat the question. Of 1964ivil rights act and a discrimination in the public and private sector. Senator Barry Goldwater voted against it, feeling it was in the governments job to tell a private owner what to do. Senator al gore senior voted against it because he opposed racial integration. How would you have voted had you been in the senate . Youre asking whether or not i would have signed the civil rights legislation in 1964 . Yes, i would have signed it. Peterson, would you have signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended discrimination in the public or private sector . I would have filibustered until we abolished title ii and then we would have gotten rid of. He government discrimination been ineldman, had you the senate in 1964, how would you have voted on the Civil Rights Act . I would hope i would look at it carefully, end government discrimination, and when it comes to private discrimination we need to find what would cause more harm, what would cause less harm, and do what makes life that are for people. Thats a very difficult decision. Mr. Mcafee, would you have voted in favor of the 1964 civil rights had you been in the senate . As many of you know, my wife is black. Years living3 1 2 24 hours a day with her, i can assure you that legislation in no way and it discrimination. What it did is bring to the awareness that discrimination will not end until you open your heart and mind and judgment to a person of another color, another race, another language, another religion. Allow me to give everyone a history lesson. The segregation in the south was of because necessarily racist Business Owners, it was because of racist legislators telling the Business Owners they had to segregate the lunch counters. In virginia, it was Business Owners that help the protesters saying,the statute by come into my business. Violate the law. That should have been outlawed. The forced discrimination should have been repealed. Thats the only thing the Civil Rights Act should have done. Petersen, should someone have to have a government issued license to drive a car . Mr. Petersen hell no. Like an, a car is gun or anything else. As long as youre not using it to hurt other people, you should be able to use it. A license and permit is another way to get money and inconvenience people. Mr. Mcafee . I dont think licenses are required. If youre under 16 and your n can drive and youve never driven before, you should at least put a flashing pink light on your car so we can get out your way. The government requires licenses for far too many things. The government requires licenses for people to broadcast radio. The government requires licenses to get married. They require a license to drive. Whats next, requiring a license to make toast in your own damn toaster . Bsolutely not government has a basic responsibility to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations, foreign governments that would do us harm trade in that context, the license to drive id like to see some competency exhibited by people before they drive. [boos] governor of new mexico, i vetoed a whole lot of bills. I vetoed the haircutting license. I vetoed all sorts of licensing. License to drive . Have an you could insurance requirements i guess, but then the Insurance Company would determine you have people that are blind to would be on the road that would continue to drive until they hurt somebody. Gentlemen, weve come to the end of the questionandanswer portion of the debate. You now have 60 seconds to make a closing argument. Mr. Mcafee went first. , you may go first. Ry what i stand before you today to promise is that all the way through those the november election, i will act as boldly and consistently as loudly as possible, and proclaimed the ideas of liberty. I want you to help me make you the Libertarian Party libertarian again. If you want an actual libertarian on the ticket and you want to help the Libertarian Party actually be libertarian again, not with a watereddown message but an absolute message of freedom on every issue every time, vote for me tomorrow so i walk off of this stage the Libertarian Party president ial nominee. [applause] governor johnson, you have 60 seconds. Got to run as a libertarian in 2012, something i was honored to carry that banner. I thought my marching orders were to grow the Libertarian Party. I think because of your efforts, more than anyone elses, the Libertarian Party is growing. Up your current weekly meeting that is occurring to an treehouse auditorium, because thousands of people are going to want to hear this message and at that meeting you can tell them, johnson is not our best candidate. We are, and make that argument. Have an opportunity, and so many of you have worked for so long consistently to provide valid access with your time and your money. And here it is, we are at a threshold here. A real threshold to grow this party and make it better. At the end of the day, shouldnt we try and make things better . Do we get from a to z . No. Should we be able to articulate z . Absolutely. We if d comes up, shouldnt sign onto anything that makes things better, anything that creates more freedom . Thank you. Petersen, you have 60 seconds. I have a gift for you all. My home, my party that ive been in the last nine years, tomorrow. Im prepared to give you a powerful, debtfree campaign with a serious strategy to win the white house in 2016. I offer this to you humbly, with love and affection, as sincere of the expressions of happiness and joy on the faces of my supporters. This is not a campaign about one man. Its a campaign about a revolution of we the people. Dr. Feldman, u. S. 60 seconds. Dr. Feldman some may ask, feldman, is he that libertarian . I am that be what you want to be libertarian that you look good. N tv libertarian the christian atheist in the libertarian. The jefferson libertarian. Jew libertarian, nosex libertarian, mlk junior malcolm x libertarian, the revolutionary, honorable, ron paul libertarian. Dale w. Perry, no apologies anarchist libertarian, that gary johnson new mexico success libertarian, that austan petersen freedom ninja in. Our face libertarian that no pain, no gain libertarian, get those petitions signed in the ring libertarian. Sorryorry im not libertarian that cant stand the infringements and abuses here,arian that right right now, no excuses libertarian. Im that libertarian. Mr. Mcafee . Mr. Mcafee thank you, dr. Feldman. So iod up here for 2 hours could speak authentically to you for 1 minute. I believe we are building a skyscraper from the top floor down. To do that, it must be supported by compromise. We are on a train filled with increasing compromise leading to a questionable win. My goal is to derail this train and lay a new set of tracks through the grassroots of this party, and build from the ground up. I would like to thank judge weiss, the creative talent of Vice President candidate, and without him we would not be here. I would not be here, and you would not have the pleasure of seeing his creation, including the arts within our party. Tomorrow you have a historic opportunity to make a choice. Do you want to ride the train you are on and try to build a skyscraper from the top down, or do you want to apply this in normans energy where it can actually create something of in a grassroots, the local that canns, everything create a Foundation Upon which we can build a party that america will see, love, and become part of. Thank you. Lets thank our 2015 libertarian president ial party candidates. Mr. Mcafee, mr. Perry, governor johnson, mr. Petersen, dr. Feldman, and i went to thank all of you who watched on cspan. Thank you for covering this. [applause] thank you, libertarians. Now sit down. Stand up if you want. Can everyone give these candidates another round of applause . [applause] ive been to everyone of these nominating conventions since 2000 and orlando. I have voted for the president ial nomination every time. Theres always been a choice. There are always choices we have to make. Believe that you see a, you, the delegates of the Libertarian Party, have the best and. Oughest choices ive ever seen [applause] at the beginning of this thing we passed of those donation cards, and i hope you been filling them out while listening to the awesome answers in this debate great if you havent, you can start filling them out now. And im going to auction off a piece of history. On this stage to my right is an area sign, and on that sign the signatures of every one of the candidates on this stage. Theres only one of these in the. Orld if you would like to own a piece of history, a unique piece of history to mark the turning of the Libertarian Party into a new era, it will be available tonight and there is a maximum price. [inaudible] when you leave, fill out your card. There will be volunteers at the back who can take them. Now i want to start by we will pick anything you want, mr. Hancock. Would you like to start the bidding at this point . Two bid points. Bitcoins. Somebody give me market price on two bitcoins. 1000, mr. Hancock, for two bitcoins. So i have another bid . 1500 right there. 2000 in the front row. 3000. 4000. 5,500. This man really wants it. 6,000 to my left. Anyone else . I know there are people who can outbid him. You dont want them to go home happy, do you . Do i hear the many more than 6000 . Theres only one of these. Going once. Going twice. Sold to the gentleman to my left for 6,000. Give him a round of applause. Thank you all. Thank you on cspan, everyone who watched this debate. Thank you, everyone. Thank you for making this possible. This is our time. This is the Libertarian Partys time. Fill out your cards and put them in the back. Thank you and we will see you tomorrow, bright and early for business. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [indistinct conversations] thank you for representing the people. Ive had several people come up and tell me i did an amazing job. I know i did an amazing job, but its so great to hear it. Theres some people saying we need to set a magic threshold to get a welfare check. Infiltrating the party and fighting over the money. And 2012 they had three state affiliates, all of which had a different president ial candidates on the ballot. I do not want that happening to this party. I want this party to stay libertarian for my entire life and beyond. The Libertarian Party president ial debate will be shown again in about an hour. Tomorrow, more road to the white house coverage of the the orlando,convention in florida. We will have live coverage of the victory speeches here on cspan. Each year House Democratic leader nancy pelosi holds a womens History Month reception at the u. S. Capitol. Michelle first lady obama, jill biden, and House Republican conference chair, representative Cathy Mcmorris rodgers, jointer to honor Women Veterans. This is one hour. Pleasees and gentlemen, welcome the democratic leader of the United States house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi, the chairwoman of the House Republican conference, the honorable honorable Cathy Mcmorris rodgers, and are dr. Jill biden, and the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. [applause] [applause] ms. Pelosi good afternoon, everyone to read welcome to statutory halt. Thank you all for joining us for this annual celebration of womens History Month. Each month we gather as members of congress and friends to lift up the legacy of every woman who has stepped forward to expand throughout freedom our history. The oath of office we take as members of congress is to support and defend the constitution and the American People. Last year we honored four Women Supreme Court justices who support and defend the constitution with their wisdom. Today we are privileged to pay tribute to honor the women who support and defend the constitution and the American People with their heroism, americas Women Veterans. [applause] today it is such an honor to be joined in the celebration by two of our nations greatest champions for Women Veterans and military families. Our magnificent first lady, Michelle Obama. [applause] dr. Jill bidanding en. [applause] madam first lady, dr. Biden, thank you for your leadership in creating the joining forces initiative to empower our Service Members, veterans, caregivers, and families. As we celebrate all Women Veterans, were also proud to be honoring one woman veteran in particular, retired brigadier wilma l. Bought, u. S. Air force. [applause] a trailblazing woman who gave nearly 30 years to service. One of the first women to become Brigadier General. [applause] the first woman to deploy with a Strategic Air command meant bombardment wing on operational deployment. One of the most decorated women in american history. Now she is president emeritus of the women in military service for america memorial foundation. Keep that in mind. [laughter] here we have a slight change in our scheduled program. Your Program Shows dr. Biden speaking later in the program but after 340 days in space, astronaut scott kelly has come back to earth, landing in kazakhstan late last night. It is longest time an american astronaut has spent in space and it is an historic achievement. [applause] it is personal for us in the connection of scott kellys brother, mark kelly, also an astronaut and husband of our former colleague gabrielle giffords. [applause] we always like to associate ourselves with greatness one way or another. Dr. Biden must leave early in time to help welcome captain kelly home on behalf of all americans. Please send him our congratulations. We thank you for making time for this gathering and it is my privilege to welcome dr. Jill biden. [applause] dr. Biden good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much, leader pelosi for hosting todays event and for your enduring commitment to those who serve and sacrificed so much for our country. Let me start by apologizing as the leader said for leaving a little early and as leader pelosi said i have the honor of traveling to houston to welcome home astronaut scott kelly from a year in space. We are so proud of scott kelly and it is going to be a really special celebration. I will be joined by scotts twin brother and members of his family. As part of our joining forces education initiative, i have invited three military connected students from Aberdeen High School in maryland to travel with me to tour the Johnson Space center and welcome home retired navy captain scott kelly. [applause] i want to show the students that if they work hard and if they dream big, there is no limit to where they can go. And it is always a pleasure to spend time with our first lady, Michelle Obama, who works tirelessly for military families and i am proud to call her my friend and my par