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Republican presidential hopeful and Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback discussed the bipartisan plan for a three-state solution in Iraq while meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani today in Washington, D.C.

"In my meeting with the Iraqi president, he indicated strong support for a federal Iraq," Brownback said. "Decentralizing power in Iraq offers the best chance for Iraqis to live in peaceful, united country where they can resolve their differences. The American people want to win in Iraq and this represents a viable way forward to stability and success."

Last week Brownback and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful, played leading roles in creating a broad coalition of senators from both sides of the aisle. The final vote was 75-23 in favor of a three-state political solution for Iraq. The plan is the only Iraq-related policy the Senate has adopted this year and calls for a loosely federated central government in Iraq with three semi-autonomous states for the Kurds, Sunni and Shia.

While some may consider Brownback and Biden strange bedfellows, both lawmakers are known for their ability to hammer out compromise bills that gain bipartisan support. Brownback worked with the late Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota to author and promote The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Although Biden's original Violence Against Women Act was passed mostly along party lines, his latest proposed enhancement -- a domestic violence volunteer attorney network to represent domestic violence victims -- has Republican Sens. Arlen Specter and Ted Stevens as co-sponsors.