it's like a modern day sparta.y have trained themselves mentally, physically for a wartime situation. and it feels like a war. it feels like a wartime prison, pelican bay. >> correctional staff told us that when it comes to battling gang activity, they're fighting a system that starts long before inmates arrive in prison. >> they're convinced that at early ages, at 8, 9, 10, 11 years old that gangs are the way to go. >> such was the case with epi cortina. he joined a street gang at age 11. it led to a 16-year to life sentence for murder. >> i've been pelican-bay raised. been up here going on 14 years. >> he'd been in prison since he was 19. he was 32 at the time i interviewed him. and he'd just been through years and years of just senseless violence. >> after his arrival at pelican bay, cortina, like many other hispanic gang-bangers from northern california, joined a prison gang known as nuestra. familia. >> i walked into a war atmosphere and i was all for it. let's go, strapped on the boots and let's go. so three

he wrote, "we are a small manufacturer in sparta, wisconsin, that has been in operation since the mid-1960's. we currently employ 24 people and are a family-owned business fabricating large fiberglass statues and water slides that are shipped all over the u.s. and canada. we've been providing our employees health insurance for 15 years, paying for 100% of the premium." pretty responsible employer. those are the types of business people i know. those are the types of business people that are very concerned about the people that work with them. those are the type of people, business people this president demonizes in his class warfare. let me go on. "we have experienced the increases in health insurance costs over the years and weathered them fine. i received our renewal this week for next year and because of the affordable care act our premium went from $3,887.77 per month to $7,103 per month. how does this happen? what definition of "affordable" is being used to describe this effect? we will not be able to pay 100% of our employees' premium at this rate. how can we get a plan that is

for instance, gillian in sparta, tennessee, wrote to me, and i quote, every year in the past my health care insurance has increased by small percentages. sometimes 5%, sometimes by 7%. this past week i received my new premiums for 2014. hey increased by 250%. same plan, same coverage, same insurance company, she said. and gillian isn't alone. nearly three times as many americans say they have been hurt rather than helped by the obamacare. according to a recent poll. this from a law that the president promised would lower insurance premiums by as much as $2,500. mr. speaker, obamacare is much more than a website. it's an unmitigated disaster. the effects of this law are wreaking had a vojislav kostunica on -- reeking had a -- wreaking havoc on our health care system. my house republican colleagues and i have tried repeatedly to protect americans from this law. the only way to do so is for democrats to join us. for instance, the senate can act right now to pass the fairness for american families act that was passed out of the house this summer. this legislation would give fairness under