(RECAP: Fannie and Freddie would continue paying all profits to the Treasury for the next five years under bipartisan Senate legislation designed to wind down the U.S.-owned mortgage financiers and overhaul the government’s role in the housing market. A draft of the measure, released yesterday, would ensure the U.S. maximizes its return on the 2008 taxpayer bailout of the two companies before shareholders receive any proceeds. The bill may struggle to gain the support it needs to advance in the next four months, before lawmakers’ attention shifts to midterm elections. A Democratic Senate aide said last week that the leadership is currently unenthusiastic about legislation that would eliminate the companies.)