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for forty-seven days. As a result of his health crisis, he missed 163 roll call votes in the House. Osterman said that he did return to the House a couple of times after he was released from the hospital, "but it almost finished me." He indicated that he returned specifically to vote on the budget.
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education or big increases in local property taxes." Osterman, however, claimed that the
Brownback tax cut will add forty thousand jobs to the Kansas economy and had already brought in four thousand jobs from the anticipation of the tax cut.
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