In a statement responding to President Obama‘s speech Friday on national security and intelligence gathering, three Democratic senators said they were pleased by the president’s tone but made clear that much further action was needed. “The fight to protect liberty and increase security is far from over,” they said.

The press release was jointly issued by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been a particular critic of Obama’s expansions of federal surveillance powers: