Name: Shelley Hughes: Well, a couple of years ago, I brokered the deal on the Senate floor to get $175 million for the Port of Nome. Had I not stepped in, that money would not have gotten.
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Description: Well, a couple of years ago, I brokered the deal on the Senate floor to get $175 million for the Port of Nome. Had I not stepped in, that money would not have gotten.

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Shelley Hughes

7:28 - 7:52

“Well, a couple of years ago, I brokered the deal on the Senate floor to get $175 million for the Port of Nome. Had I not stepped in, that money would not have gotten.”

Speaker: Shelley Hughes
Timestamp: 7:28 – 7:52
Transcript: Shelley Hughes campaign: Instead of Alaska being at the end of the road, Alaska will be the door to the globe
Community: Alaska News
Location: Alaska
Captured at: August 6, 2026

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So this would be, this would This is eastern for you, right? So the border crossing is here. The western border, then we look at the ports, and it was determined that Nome was the best place. Well, a couple of years ago, I brokered the deal on the Senate floor to get $175 million for the Port of Nome. Had I not stepped in, that money would not have gotten.

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