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Would you trust Congress to take over matchmaking duties of the Ultimate Fighting Championship? The idea of Washington D.C. bullying itself big government-style into how UFC President Dana White books fights reared its head last week during a Congressional hearing between the promotion’s regulatory chief, Marc Ratner, and Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin, the public face spearheading the effort to amend the Ali Act to cover mixed martial arts.