Possible Clues:

• Still serving
• Powerful at present in from where it's frozen
• At work one will slip in from what's frozen
• Governing
• Perhaps take to the water from what's frozen while on the job
• Politician's place
• Still working, back from the skating
• It's fortissimo, I see, like the present grovernment
• Not resigned to taking the plunge into freezing water, it seems