" Because of the work of Barney Frank , working in a bipartisan way , those principles of why we stabilize the markets , protect the taxpayer , to have forbearance for homeowners , to have equity position for the taxpayer to get some of the upside of what upturn there might be in these financial institutions , for it has to have reform for CEO compensation -- all of these were addressed . These four principles were accepted by President Bush in his speech the night before last and we 're very pleased with that progress . Again , in addition to reining in the expansive authority that was drawn for the Secretary in the original legislation .