District Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton released a request Tuesday for a review of the restrictions placed on commercial filming and photography near the U.S. Capitol.

Commercial filming and photographing in the area surrounding the Capitol is limited to the square beneath the west Capitol grounds.

Norton said in her letter that she hopes the transfer of Union Square from the National Park Service to the Architect of the Capitol will serve as an opportunity for the current filming and photography policy to be reconsidered, with a possible expansion beyond Union Square.

“Most of the people of the world know us and revere our system of government largely through commercial photography and films of the Capitol, the one place that symbolizes U.S. democracy at work,” Norton said. “The nation can only gain by putting our best face forward.”