oklahoma congressman mark wayne mull is a former mma fighter and sponsoring legislation that would set up federal regulation of mma similar to the way boxing is regulated. texas congress mann michael burgess is the chair of the subcommittee. it's expected to start momentarily. this is live coverage on c-span3.

oklahoma congressman mark wayne mull is a former mma fighter and sponsoring legislation that would set up federal regulation of mma similar to the way boxing is regulated. texas congress mann michael burgess is the chair of the subcommittee. it's expected to start momentarily. this is live coverage on c-span3. this morning is looking into the safety of mixed martial arts. also known as mma. also investigating the relationship between the fighters and the company that promotes it. the "associated press" reports that about a third of professional mixed martial arts matches end in knockout or technical knockout and that would indicate a higher incidence of brain trauma than boxing or other martial arts according to a study in the american journal of sports medicine. this hearing was speged to start a couple moments ago. this is a house committee. and right now members are attending a series of votes in the house as the 114th congress comes to a close. while we wait for members to come and get this hearing under way, we'll show you a segment from the this morning's "washington journal" on

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mark: you know, i was involved actually in writing pieces about the bosnian war, the balkan war and had just gotten back from bosnia. i was at fort wayne, indiana, where my girlfriend then lived. she'd grown up in fort wayne and i was writing pieces there and one day the phone rang and it was orville shell the china specialist and new yorker writer, who i didn't know very well, who had been named the dean of the graduate school of journalism at berkeley and he called me out of the blue and said, i'd like you to come teach here. and i essentially said, well, i'm not that interested in that, i don't want to teach, i'm in the middle of this book writing on bosnia. and i put the phone down and katherine, my then girlfriend, was walking by the room at the time and she just happened to be walking by and said who's that? and i explained the phone call and she said are you crazy, you'll an great teacher, we'll go out to berkeley and it will be wonderful. and that's really why i ended up going. and i taught -- my first class was a seminar called wars, coups, and revolutions. and it was really about writing about violent political change. and yo

mark: you know, i was involved actually in writing pieces about the bosnian war, the balkan war and had just gotten back from bosnia. i was at fort wayneindiana, where my girlfriend then lived. she'd grown up in fort wayne and i was writing pieces there and one day the phone rang and it was orville shell the china specialist and new yorker writer, who had been named the dean of the graduate school of journalism at berkeley and he called me out of the blue and said, i'd like you to come teach here. and i essentially said, well, i'm not that interested in that, i don't want to teach, i'm in the middle of this book writing on bosnia. and i put the phone down and katherine, my then girlfriend, was walking by the room at the time and she just happened to be walking by and said who's that? and i explained the phone call and she said are you crazy, you would be a great teacher. why don't you just try? you will go out to berkeley. it will be wonderful. that is really why i ended up going and i taught -- my first class was a seminar called wars, coups, and revolutions. and it was really about writing about violent political change. and you know