Here are today’s headlines from the Kansas congressional delegation:Sen. Sam Brownback (R) !(The Hill) Lawmakers warm to plan for divided Iraq: As more Republicans join Democrats in pushing for a change of strategy in Iraq, lawmakers and candidates are signaling new openness to dividing the war-torn nation into three autonomous regions, a plan closely associated with Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.). … Republicans are also beginning to echo Biden’s suggestions in the politically pressurized pre-election environment, whether to praise the plan or simply urge that it remain “on the table.” This puts GOP lawmakers at odds with the president, who has ruled out any regionalizing of Iraq. “I think this idea of maybe the three autonomous regions within one country may be the one that we start to move more and more towards,” Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) said during an appearance last week on CNBC. Brownback used the former nation of Yugoslavia, which was regionally divided by the 1990s Balkan war, as an example of the strategy’s potential.(Evansville Courier & Press) Brownback lends support to Sodrel: Rep. Mike Sodrel’s campaign event was supposed to be about social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. His guest, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, told the dozen people at Jasper’s train depot: “The reason I’m here is who runs the Congress may be decided by Indiana.” But Brownback and Sodrel ended up talking Monday night more about the war in Iraq than family values. Brownback agreed with voters who say how upset they are with the war. “I’m not happy with how this is going in Iraq,” he said. But he added that Democrats would have a cut-and-run strategy that would embolden “Islamic fascists.” “We took the fight to them,” Brownback said, and that’s why we haven’t had any terrorist attacks in the United States in five years.(Grand Rapids Press) Senator hits back on judges: One of three nominations, that of Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Janet Neff of East Grand Rapids, is on hold. U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, halted her nomination after he learned Neff spoke four years ago at the commitment ceremony of a lesbian couple. Bush nominated Neff along with attorney Robert Jonker of East Grand Rapids and Paul Maloney of Berrien County to serve in the U.S. District Court in West Michigan. In the compromise to clear a logjam of judicial nominations, Stabenow and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, insisted on including Neff with the other two. All three had moved out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and were on their way to the full Senate before Brownback held up Neff. Tuesday, Stabenow, D-Lansing, said if Neff’s candidacy is scotched, the other nominations will be, too. “It’s a package,” she said in a meeting with The Press editorial board.