Part II of the text of Obama's news conference (The Post-Standard)
OBAMA: But it is it is going to be an impossible task for us to balance our budget if we're not taking on rising health care costs, and it's going to be an impossible task to balance our budget or even approximate it if we are not boosting our growth rates.

Part I of text of Obama's news conference (AP via Yahoo! News)
Text of President Barack Obama's news conference Tuesday at the White House, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions:

Audit faults D.C. agency on ambulance fee collection (The Washington DC Examiner)
D.C. auditors are urging the District s emergency medical services department to take steps to recover more than $60 million in uncollected ambulance fees that riders rang up over the past eight years.