 Danes was invited to speak the same year at the "U.S. Congressional Forum on Laos" in the United States House of Representatives and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Having found an appreciative audience, she testified on numerous occasions on Capitol Hill, and spoke at the National Press Club  about human rights violations and the plight of political and foreign prisoners held in Laos.The sense of injustice can be a powerful motivational condition, causing people to take action not just to defend themselves but also others who they perceive to be unfairly treated.Danes continued writing and two more memoirs were released in 2006 and 2008.