Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers and 23 House Republican colleagues are waving a yellow flag at Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, asking him to agree to an “open and transparent” process on the Democrats’ unprecedented $3.5 trillion spending plan. “We request that you commit to regular order and a robust, open, and transparent process on any matters the Committee on Energy and Commerce considers to meet its reconciliation instructions,” McMorris-Rodgers and the other co-signers told Pallone in an Aug. 30 letter. McMorris-Rodgers, the ranking minority member of the panel, is a Washington state Republican, while Pallone is a New Jersey Democrat. Calling the Democrats spending plan “an unprecedented expansion of federal control over American health care, energy production and use, and the economy writ large,” the Republicans said, “it should not be rushed through on a party line vote without giving the American people a chance to learn about what …