it directed the attorney general and the department of justice to assess every federal agency that has criminal convictions and make sure they're reporting those convictions to the national background check database because a great many agencies and for that matter a great many states have been failing to report convictions to the database. the reason that matters is the database, background checks don't work in the convictions aren't reported. we saw this in my home state where in souther land springs, a deranged madman, he had a felony conviction, domestic violence conviction. under federal law it was illegal for him to buy a gun but the air force under the obama administration failed to report that conviction to the background check database. if cruz grassley had passed the attorney general would have found that convictions and other convictions that hadn't been reported and it would have