Byrd 2012?

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., declared at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday that "I will run in 2012, the Lord willing," according to The New York Times.

Byrd, 89, became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history several months before he handily won a record ninth term in November. He would be just shy of 95 on Election Day 2012.