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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