Mr. Dogan favors lifting restrictions on media ownership, which he said would make the business more transparent and give the public more choice.

Meanwhile, the Bush Administration strongly favors lifting the prohibition on information services and would probably move to veto a bill that kept it in place.

But there have been visits from lawmakers who favor lifting a trade embargo and a travel ban.

But Mr. Harrison, who favors lifting the ban, said his calls had been roughly even.

Other nations that had greater financial stakes in Iraq, including France and Russia, favored lifting the sanctions.

For years, Washington has been saying that it favors lifting the embargo.

He said he favored lifting the ban.

He also said he favored lifting a cap on state borrowing, to weather the crisis.

Public opinion polls show that most Americans favor lifting the ban, though it is unclear how deep that support runs.

In a survey last October, 85 percent of about 770 students, from an enrollment of 12,000, said they favored lifting the dancing ban.