One week after Congress has taken up its fall agenda following a five-week summer recess, it remains to be seen when or even whether the Senate will call for a vote on President Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In July, Rep. Mel Watt’s nomination cleared the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee along a straight party-line vote, with some key Republicans vowing to block the North Carolina Democrat’s confirmation. While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, could have moved Watt’s nomination to the floor for a vote before members left for recess on Aug. 2, he did not. The passage of time and confluence of world events have made Watt’s already long odds for confirmation even less likely, according to Compass Point Research & Trading’s Isaac Boltansky.