Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, will force a vote on the nomination when the Senate returns from its Christmas break in January, Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Tuesday.

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These five firms all had at least one team member make the top ten, and Sequoia ( Doug Leone and Jim Goetz) and Greylock ( Reid Hoffman and David Sze) are the only firms to have two representatives in the top ten.

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"There's every reason to be concerned, " said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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Downing Street said Mr Straw was aware of the "strength of feeling in certain quarters", and had consulted Jim Wallace, and the Scottish Secretary, John Reid, before taking his decision.

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If McConnell tries to knock out a Democratic nominee tit-for-tat, Democrats won't accept a four-member commission, says Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

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Evidence was also given by Prof Seona Reid, director of the Glasgow School of Art, and Prof Sir Jim McDonald, principal of the University of Strathclyde.

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