{"id":1162,"date":"2012-12-06T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/advocacy\/inside208\/post\/Tell-President-Obama-to-Keep-Federal-Transportation-Funding-in-Budget-Deal.aspx"},"modified":"2012-12-06T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T09:42:00","slug":"tell-president-obama-to-keep-federal-transportation-funding-in-budget-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2012\/12\/06\/tell-president-obama-to-keep-federal-transportation-funding-in-budget-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell President Obama to Keep Federal Transportation Funding in Budget Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation For America has developed a tool that local leaders can sign on to urge President Obama to keep significant funding for multi modal transportation as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. The deadline to sign the letter is 5pm TODAY, December 6th. 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