The Congress may, by law, vest the appointment of other officers lower in rank in the President alone, in the courts, or in the heads of departments, agencies, commissions, or boards.

[5][6] The nomination of a person to the vice presidency due to a vacancy is handled by both houses of Congress, voting separately.

During the operation of the 1935 Constitution, the commission was composed of 21 members of the National Assembly of the Philippines.

Prior to the institutionalization of the party-list system, the president appointed the sectoral representatives.

In these cases, the appointment allows the official to discharge the duties related to the office immediately.

In a "regular" nomination, the official can only discharge the duties once the commission consents to the appointment.

These are the members for the 19th Congress of the Philippines:[9] Rejection by the commission of the president's appointment is very rare.

Usually, due to the padrino system of patronage politics, the president's party controls a supermajority of votes in the House of Representatives, thus mirroring its composition of the commission.