Congressman Mike Ferguson

Peapack-Gladstone

• The Peapack-Gladstone Fire Department received a $122,235 first-responder grant from the Homeland Security Department to purchase new equipment for the all-volunteer firefighters, including self-contained breathing apparatuses and communications equipment.

• Congressman Ferguson voted to reduce taxes for Peapack-Gladstone 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 Peapack-Gladstone.

• 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.