WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, in two letters raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest surrounding the Trump Administration's deals with more than a dozen critical mining companies with ties to President Trump's family, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's family, or both.

In a letter sent to David A. Lorch, the Director of the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) at the Department of Defense, Schiff, Blumenthal, and Warren sought records and informat...