The day before this show, Mr. Solarz, who was completing his 8th term as Representative of New York's 13th district, located in Brooklyn, had learned that he would not be going back to Congress in January. Under reapportionment, his district had been redrawn with the aim of electing a Hispanic; in the event, he found himself running against five Hispanics. This half-hour starts with the question of whether only a Hispanic can represent Hispanics, only a Jew Jews, and so on, but deepens into a general discussion of the theory of representative government and the way the Executive and Legislative Branches are supposed to play off each other. WFB: "The late Professor Willmoore Kendall... in a famous essay called 'The Two Majorities,' remarks that the role of a Chief Executive is to appeal to certain Utopian instincts or appetites among people, and the role of Congress is to apply mechanical brakes." ... SS: "While I disagree with many of his policies, there is no question that Ronald Reagan was able to effectively push his program through the Congress. I think part of the problem we've had in the last four years is that President Bush simply has not been actively or effectively engaged in the effort to push his domestic program through the Congress."