(Radio Iowa) – There was a two-fer at the Capitol to celebrate Tuesday’s palindrome date. Representative Dustin Hite of New Sharon presented this closing argument on a piece of legislation.

The bill about procedures in criminal courts was not controversial and passed unanimously — but not before Representative John Wills of Spirit Lake put in his two cents worth.

That’s Representative Rick Olson of Des Moines. His two bits were that it was a simple bill and Hite had described it accurately. Yesterday’s date was a palindrome worldwide, for counties that list the month first and for those that put the date first in the numeric sequence.

The last universal palindrome date was more than a decade ago, on the 11th of November — or 11-11-11.