The pledge of fiscal responsibility includes stricter accounting standards for state spending, the creation of an independent budget office, a five-year financial plan and limits on borrowing.
"In the spirit of this extraordinary moment, and as a pledge of shared responsibility, I'll take the first step," she said.
Mr. Rubio may have risen to prominence with a pledge of fiscal responsibility, which helped secure his conservative base, but in a state where unemployment shows no sign of dropping, and the real estate market remains grim, he now seems to be surging in part because his campaign tugs the heartstrings.
Some $60 million in direct aid, two-thirds of it from Europe, was frozen by donor countries in December, in response to what they saw as the Palestinian Authority's violation of a pledge of fiscal responsibility when it raised salaries by nearly 50percentt last summer.
In the recent spate of attacks, the claims of responsibility and pledges of loyalty have been strikingly similar in language and tone, as if adhering to an exacting script.
Yet, paradoxically, they are united in their fervent belief that the only way for Russia and the United States to avoid confrontation in the former-Soviet region is through a Yalta-style "grand bargain": a delimitation of spheres of responsibility and a pledge of mutual noninterference in each other's sphere.
Take responsibility: A swift acknowledgement of responsibility, apology, and pledge for redemption is the first step in the face of a reputation and brand management crisis.
I believe that initially US acknowledgement of responsibility and a pledge to end similar programs would have won Alan's speedy release.
The dreadful backdrop to this emergency is an abdication of responsibility by organizations that have pledged to help Haiti, particularly the United Nations.
Hatoyama may be reacting to political pressure from voters in Okinawa as well as the Socialists in his ruling coalition, but that does not relieve him of responsibility to work with the only power pledged to defend his nation.
