| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| ONE | Number of independent U.S. representatives |
| SAMOAN | Nonvoting member in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| speaker | presiding officer of a legislative assembly, esp., the U.S. House of Representatives |
| NONE | Number of black U.S. senators |
| ONE | Number of single-syllable U.S. states |
| TEN | Number of years between U.S. censuses |
| ONE | Number of monosyllabic U.S. state names |
| SEVEN | Number of U.S. presidents born in Ohio |
| TWO | Maximum number of terms for a U.S. president |
| ONE | Number of Orthodox Jews in the U.S. Senate |
| builddown | process for reducing armaments, esp. the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed |
