Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden said Sunday President Barack Obama has not gone far enough in curbing the powers of the National Security Agency and should order an immediate halt to the bulk collection of telephone metadata records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The Oregon Democrat, who has served on the Intelligence Committee since 2001, had guarded praise for the proposal the president offered last week. Obama would have the NSA end its bulk collection of telephone metadata records, and would instead have those records remain at the telephone companies. Under Obama’s proposal, in the absence of a national security emergency situation, the government could obtain the telephone records only if it got individual orders for individual numbers from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Such changes would require Congress to pass legislation. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D- Calif., said on CNN Sunday that “the issue is whether the telecoms, all of them, are willing to hold this data. When we talked with them, they were not. They would most likely have to be compelled legislatively” to keep the metadata and would also need to given immunity from lawsuits filed by individuals who might claim their privacy was violated. Wyden called Obama’s proposal a start but he pressed the president for immediate action. “There’s certainly more to do, for example I believe the president ought to make the transition right away” by ending bulk collection of telephone metadata, Wyden said. He added, “I believe strongly we ought to ban all dragnet surveillance on law-abiding Americans, not just phone records, but also medical records, purchases, and others.” Wyden did have praise for Obama’s nominee to head the NSA, Vice Admiral Michael Rogers, who, he said, “understands that they have a big rebuilding job to do.”