While the telecom and defense industries fight to keep buying Chinese-manufactured chips, a host of companies like Boeing, General Dynamics, Cox Communications, and AT&T have doled out more than $123 million in lobbying and contributions to Congress this year.

And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the leading voice seeking to water down a pending revision to the National Defense Authorization Act curtailing the use of chips, has spent $63 million. Republicans received 74% of these funds, OpenSecrets reported.
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