Honorable Mike Ferguson
United States Representative, New Jersey, Republican
Representative Ferguson, of the Seventh District of New Jersey, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. He was a high school teacher from 1992 to 1993, Director of the Better Schools Foundation in 1994 and Save Our Schoolchildren in 1995, Executive Director of Catholic Campaign for America from 1995 to 1997, and an adjunct professor at Brookdale Community College from 1997 to 2000. He is the Founder and President of Strategic Education Initiatives. He serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee. The following is from the June 8, 2006, House floor debate on Representative Markey’s amendment…