Branchburg

  • The North Branch Volunteer Fire Department received a $41,990 first-responder grant from the Homeland Security Department to purchase new equipment to improve the safety of the department’s emergency personnel.

  •  Congressman Ferguson secured approval of $30,000 to upgrade the Branchburg Police Department’s Mobile Emergency Operations Center, including replacing an older vehicle with one that serves as a central command center at on-site emergencies.

  •  Congressman Ferguson secured more than $10 million to make improvements along an eight-mile section of Route 22 in Somerset County – one of the most dangerous roads in New Jersey. The Route 22 Sustainable Corridor Project is expected to break ground in 2007 between Routes 202-206 and Chimney Rock Road in Bridgewater. The project includes building new interchanges and overpasses, eliminating dangerous U-turns in the medians, and creating local and express lanes between Interstate 287 and Routes 202-206.

  • Congressman Ferguson voted to reduce taxes for Branchburg residents, including doubling the child tax credit to $1,000, reducing the marriage penalty faced by two-income families, making college expenses tax deductible, reducing taxes on capital gains and dividends, and reducing all tax brackets benefiting every worker in Branchburg.

  • Congressman Ferguson voted to provide Branchburg public schools with more than $47,313 in federal elementary and secondary education aid in fiscal year 2007. Congressman Ferguson has voted to increase federal education funding for New Jersey schools by more than 33 percent since 2001.





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