An independent panel has recommended the NSA end some parts of its bulk data collection program. Reuters

In the wake of the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in January on the findings of a presidential task force's report reviewing the agency's monitoring and data-collection program.

"The first public exposure to what the panel said is going to be before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a couple weeks, and we are going to go into it at great length," Leahy, who is chair of the committee, said on the show.

President Barack Obama appointed the five-person task force to review the NSA's wide-ranging surveillance program in the wake of controversy surrounding the spying, sparked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's release of information about the program.

All five members of the task force will appear before the Senate committee on Jan. 14, according to a press release from Leahy's office.

The panel has recommended sweeping changes to U.S. government surveillance programs, including limiting the bulk collection of Americans' phone records by stripping the NSA of its ability to store that data in its own facilities. Court orders would be required before the information could be searched.

In the 300-page report released Wednesday, the five-member panel also proposed greater scrutiny of decisions to spy on friendly foreign leaders, a practice that has outraged U.S. allies around the world.