If taxpayers are paying for research, we ought to have access to the findings... We already have access to the research findings - journals publish them, libraries have them, other science professionals have them. This is about the government forcing journals to give up their copyrights to the stuff they pay good money to peer-review and publish.
If the government y'all seem to trust sooooo much wants to make research it funds available, the solution is simple; just forbid researchers taking federal money from publishing in peer-reviewed journals and make their work available strictly through the government. That way, people get to read the research and we don't have Big Gub'mint forcing publications to give-up their intellectual property. See, everyone wins, right?
If you look at the actual proposed law you will see that it doesn't require these publishers to give the government anything. It requires taxpayer funded researchers to provide a report of their findings if they are able to get their work published in a peer reviewed journal. The final article published in the journal does not have to be published on the Internet, and the research report does not have to be submitted for publication free on the Internet until six months after the version to be published in the journal is published in the journal. This is an extra requirement for government funded researchers, not for scientific journals.