It was an old habit, one that she'd suffered with as a child and fought against when she entered college. She'd weaned herself away from it, mostly by throwing herself instead into studying and typing, other things to keep her hands busy, but she still occasionally felt the urge to pop a nail into her mouth and bite down. Her bill was next up. Funding Our Children in the United States - FOCUS. Talking about the bill on talk shows, she had realized that she needed a catchy name. That night, she spent an evening with a bottle of wine and a notepad, rearranging different combinations of words until she found a halfway decent acronym. Unfortunately, despite all her work to drum up support, despite her upbeat tone with the reporters and on the press circuit, Alicia knew, with a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, that the bill didn't stand a chance of passing. Already, she was starting to hear talk from her home state of disappointed voters growing disillusioned with her.
