text_1: "Richard Durbin Says President Barack Obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, ""a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices."
text_2: "In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, Durbin said Obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, ""a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices."" Obama’s nominees cleared the procedural hurdles and won 60 votes and then some. The Senate confirmed Kagan by a roll call vote of 63-37 in 2010, and Sotomayor was confirmed in 2009 by a vote of 68-31. Kagan and Sotomayor ultimately would have had enough votes to be able to break a filibuster, but they never had to -- and the margins they got on the final, simple-majority vote can’t be used to retroactively define what the ""standard"" was."