{"id":45628,"date":"2019-01-29T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=45628"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:15:47","slug":"congressman-tom-malinowski-bill-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/congressman-tom-malinowski-bill-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"N.J. Congressman Tom Malinowski&#8217;s bill reforms federal funding use for infrastructure","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill called the Transportation Funding Fairness Act (TFFA), introduced by first-term U.S. Rep. 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