WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers are scrambling to put their mark on the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to save financial markets -- a fast-moving test of wills that could reshape one of the biggest bailouts in U.S. history.

There's no sign yet that Congress will delay or derail the proposal. Democrats are looking to add provisions that include beefed-up congressional oversight, aid for individual homeowners and changes to bankruptcy laws.

Some of the measures are opposed by the administration. Perhaps the biggest looming fight is over Democratic efforts to require the program's participants to curb what they pay their executives.

Last week, as deep new fissures opened in global financial markets, the U.S. Treasury unveiled a plan to spend up to $700 billion to buy soured mortgages and mortgage-related securities from financial institutions. In many respects, the financial sector last week all but ceased to function.