Sen. Joni Ernst and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Participate in Forum Live on FOX Nation From Edward M. Kennedy Institute

The third installment of The Senate Project series will feature Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in a forum moderated by FOX News Channel’s (FNC) chief political anchor Bret Baier on Monday, June 12 at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. The event will run live, commercial free on FOX News Media’s streaming platform, FOX Nation that day and will later air on FNC on Sunday, June 18 at 10 p.m./EDT.

Utilizing the Institute’s full-scale replica of the United States Senate chambers at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., the hour-long event will focus on a variety of topics, including foreign policy and homeland security.

In 2022, Baier moderated The Senate Project’s inaugural debate between Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which was live streamed on FOX Nation. As FNC’s chief political anchor and executive editor of Special Report, Baier has played a pivotal role in coverage of every major political event since joining the network in 1998. His nightly news program is routinely among the top five programs in all of cable news, averaging 2.2 million viewers year to date. Following the forum, he will anchor Special Report live from the Kennedy Institute at 6 p.m./EDT that evening.

The Senate Project seeks to bring together senators from different ends of the political spectrum for civil, substantive discussion and debate aimed at finding potential areas of bipartisan compromise and common ground, a hallmark of the Senate for more than two centuries. The project and its founding partners take inspiration from the model of political bridge-building established by the late Senator Ted Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, and late Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, in working past party and political differences to forge consensus on landmark healthcare reform legislation and other bipartisan bills.

Previous editions of The Senate Project debates featured Senators Lindsey O. Graham (R-SC) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at the Kennedy Institute in June 2022 hosted by FOX News Media and Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rob Portman (R-OH), hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in August 2022. A fourth Senate Project debate is being planned for September in Washington, D.C.

In commenting on the announcement, FOX News Media President & Executive Editor Jay Wallace said, “Following the success of last year’s debate, we are once again pleased to partner with the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. The Senate Project series is a great example of how political leaders from opposing sides can find common ground in their efforts to address the critical issues facing the nation.”