Independently re-verified. The Fiscal Times source is REAL and live, and fully substantiates the record: on Jan 18, 2024 the House Budget Committee approved the Fiscal Commission Act 22-12 with three Democrats joining Republicans; the panel was designed to balance the budget and stabilize debt-to-GDP; and Speaker Mike Johnson publicly praised the vote as 'a positive step towards fiscal sanity,' with ranking Democrat Brendan Boyle opposing it as 'a backdoor way to force through unpopular cuts.' The second source (The Hill's reprint of the Jan 31, 2024 AP story by Kevin Freking) is a genuine, widely-syndicated article whose headline itself states the outcome ('a commission to address it appears dead in Congress'); the URL returned a 403 bot-block (live server), not a dead/invented link. No fiscal/debt commission was ever established, the bill received no House floor vote and did not become law, and the budget was never balanced. Adversarial label check: this is NOT CHAMPIONED (Johnson did not sponsor, lead, or drive the bill; as Speaker he issued a supportive statement but never brought it to the floor); it is NOT PARTIAL (none of the promise's substantive components -- commission established, spending controlled, budget balanced -- were achieved); and it is more than IGNORED (the effort genuinely advanced through committee with his public backing). ATTEMPTED (+0.25) -- genuinely advanced but did not land -- is the fair, party-symmetric outcome; a Speaker of either party with this identical record (endorse, committee passage, no floor vote, bill dies) would receive the same label.