WASHINGTON — The House’s bipartisan Task Force investigating recent assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump issued its final report this week. 

Republican Congresswoman Laurel Lee, who serves on the Task Force, said some of the biggest problems the panel found involved communications between federal and state law enforcement at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pa., in July, when a gunman nearly assassinated him. 

"We identified a number of strategic failures, both failure to plan, secure a large enough area in the first place, and then a communication breakdown during the day's events that all of the law enforcement officers who were there working together weren't on the same communications channel, and didn't have a single point of command, and that really inhibited their ability to share information quickly and timely with one another," Lee said in an interview with Spectrum News. 

After bipartisan outrage over the Pennsylvania assassination attempt, and her responses during a Congressional hearing, Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheatle resigned, handing the reins to now Acting Director Ronald Rowe. President Joe Biden also signed off on legislation passed by Congress to increase Secret Service protection for presidential candidates.

Task Force's new report issues 37 recommendations.

"The first thing that was evident is that the Secret Service didn't follow some of its own internal protocols in the planning and the execution of the event that day," Lee said. "So, one of the first things is that we need to get back to a place where every day, every event, they're following their own internal protocols and best practices. Second to that, we have a lot of recommendations and insights about how the communications breakdown contributed to the events that day, and what needs to change to ensure that all law enforcement personnel who are working on an event are working in concert and collaborating together."

While the Task Force has finished its investigation and report, Lee believes lawmakers’ work on the matter will continue in some capacity moving forward. 

"I do think that there is ongoing work that is important for Congress to do that involves ensuring that we have the appropriate setup, jurisdiction, oversight, funding, support for Secret Service to make sure they're on the pathway to success going forward," Lee said. "That can happen, either in existing committees of Congress, or certainly, if it is the interest of the speaker and the minority leader for us to carry forward, I know members of the task force are very passionate about ensuring that we get this right."

Trump has yet to name his choice for the position of Secret Service director in his incoming administration.