Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released a statement on Wednesday praising outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer for his term on the court while also promising a “prompt hearing” and a confirmation process with “deliberate speed” for whomever Biden chooses for the High Court.

“For virtually his entire adult life, including a quarter century on the U.S. Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer has served his country with the highest possible distinction,” Schumer said via Twitter. “He is, and always has been, a model jurist. He embodies the best qualities and highest ideals of American justice: knowledge, wisdom, fairness, humility, restraint.”

“His work and his decisions as an Associate Justice on the biggest issues of our time – including voting rights, the environment, women’s reproductive freedom, and most recently, health care and the Affordable Care Act – were hugely consequential. America owes Justice Breyer an enormous debt of gratitude,” the senior senator from New York added.