WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) spoke on the Senate floor yesterday to call on Republicans to take up the Ending Presidential Corruption in Banking Act, legislation that would terminate the federal banking charter for World Liberty Financial that was approved by the Trump-controlled Office of the Comptroller of the Currencey and prohibit federal banking agencies from approving banking applications when the applicant is owned by certain senior government officials.

"Mr. President, I'm here thinking about all the Americans who are working on manufacturing plants assembly lines, all the Americans who ...