ms. barbara. >> well, kyra, ms. barbara -- her name was barbara drugan.hole adult life she asked to be called ms. barbara. in 1947, straight out of st. mary's academy, she started teaching kindergarten. and the remarkable thing about her, she passed away last week at the age of 85, the remarkable thing about her is she never forgot anyone. 20 years, 30 years, 40 years later. she would run into an adult who was a parent or a grand parent, and she knew their names, their parents' names, their brothers and sisters' names. and as you said, you were very lucky if you live in a town, in a community, where there is a person like ms. barbara. and they don't get recognized much. and i think it's probably a good thing that we do. >> you say that she remembered every student, every name. bob, it's so important for us to never forget our roots as well. and the people that helped us become the adults that we are. >> well, and she was so remarkable, that after she retired, there was a story in a community paper in town saying that they looked -- they needed volunteer c

barbara walters has a special billionaire secrets what they know that can change your life it will run on 20/20. ms walters joins us from the abc studios in new york city. good timing here as rich americans are in the news every day now. >> absolutely. speaking of making money, i hope you are making a lot of money in your lincoln book. this is unsolicited testimonial. it is a very good book. >> bill: thank you, ms. walters, i appreciate that when you talk to these billionaires. >> yeah. >> bill: you talked to one guy on paul mitchell, co-founder, that's the hair spray people and the cosmetics people, right? >> let me tell you why we picked these people. these days and you are right, with the marches and everything being a billionaire is almost a dirty word. but we chose four people who started from very humble beginnings. you mentioned john paul. he used to sleep in his car with his son because he had so little money. i will tell you about each of them briefly. but what we wanted to do was to show you four people who made it themselves. they are not bankers. they are not hedge funds. they are peopl

barbara lee of oakland. mr. lee: thank you very much. -- ms. lee: thank you very much. let me thank my colleague, congresswoman christensen, for those kind remarks and for leading this special order, once again to sound the alarm of the jobs crisis in our country. but also, congresswoman christensen, i want to thank you for your leadership on so many issues, especially health care. but also you remind us of the importance of health care reform, not only because people deserve affordable, accessible health care, but also you remind us that the many jobs that will be created as a result of the health care sector, as a result of these health care reforms, so thank you for continuing to remind us of that. because many, many jobs are going to be created as a result of the work that you did. well, under the leadership of our very brilliant and bold chairman of the congressional black caucus, chairman emanuel cleaver, and our jobs task force chair, congresswoman maxine waters, the congressional black caucus has been hitting the street about jobs for some time now. we helped fi

ms. schakowsky: i thank the speaker for recognition. on thursday, i will join my colleague, representative barbara lee, and catholic charities u.s.a. and the jewish council for public affairs, the national council of churches and several other congresspeople that my colleague mentioned to participate in the food stamp challenge, an effort to draw attention to the crisis of hunger in america. as part of the challenge, participants will eat on the average snap allotment. that's what we call it now. there's no more food stamps. now people get a card that they can actually use to charge the food. but will eat on the average snap allotment of $1.50 per meal for a week. having participated in this event in the past, i know it is extremely difficult to eat a healthy diet under such strict budgetary guidelines. nevertheless, snap is the difference between chronic hunger and a basic meal for 45 million americans. now, obviously that means i'm going to give up any starbucks coffee but even the dollar coffee i was able to buy in the cloakroom just before i came out here is something that will be just too precious to spend, that's almost a who